On Tuesday 05 February 2002 21:29, Peter Eisentraut wrote:
> Denis Perchine writes:
> > Hello,
> >
> > > ... can a few of you go take a peak and let me know if anything is
> > > wrong/missing?
> >
> > make -j 2
> > does not work.
>
> You should know better than to make unsupported claims of "does not work".
> FWIW, it "does work" here.
parallel make errors are mostly timing dependent. Here is the example. RH 6.2
[ec@linux03 postgresql-7.2]$ make -j 2
make -C doc all
make[1]: Entering directory `/home/ec/1/postgresql-7.2/doc'
gzip -d -c man.tar.gz | /bin/tar xf -
gzip -d -c man.tar.gz | /bin/tar xf -
for file in man1/*.1; do \ mv $file $file.bak && \ sed -e 's/\\fR(l)/\\fR(7)/' $file.bak >$file && \ rm $file.bak ||
exit;\
done
for file in man1/*.1; do \ mv $file $file.bak && \ sed -e 's/\\fR(l)/\\fR(7)/' $file.bak >$file && \ rm $file.bak ||
exit;\
done
rm: cannot remove `man1/createlang.1.bak': No such file or directory
make[1]: *** [man1/.timestamp] Error 1
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
make[1]: Leaving directory `/home/ec/1/postgresql-7.2/doc'
make: *** [all] Error 2