Re: [Chicken-users] A fix for parallel build (gmake -j)

[Toby Thain]

On 06/10/11 10:31 AM, Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Oct 2011 17:24:36 +0300 Vitaly Magerya<address@hidden>  wrote:
>
> > Mario Domenech Goulart wrote:
> > > This issue has been addressed by http://bugs.call-cc.org/ticket/526
> >
> > OK, I see.
> >
> > Any news on that bug? Will the fix be committed any time soon?
> >
> > (I maintain the FreeBSD port for chicken, and some people are asking
> > why is it that the port doesn't build in parallel mode, hence my
> > interest in the matter).
>
> The problem is that the build system is a critical part of CHICKEN and
> it has to be extensively tested on all platforms.

I can test on Solaris 10 SPARC SMP and OS X SMP (PowerPC/Intel).

> Testing it is a bit
> hard, since even if make is finished successfully, it doesn't
> necessarily means that CHICKEN was built correctly.
>
> We'd be changing a critical part that works just for the sake of
> speeding up a process that is rarely executed (the build process).

Alex fully addressed this point. ;)

> That said, I'd really like to see parallel builds working.  They can be
> very useful for debugging (e.g., when comparing several chicken
> versions/commits, git bisecting).

It also gives more confidence that the Makefile is correct.

--Toby

> Best wishes.
> Mario