Re: single-threading targets although make was invoked with -jX ?

[David Boyce]

On Wed, May 4, 2011 at 11:20 AM, Per Jessen <address@hidden> wrote:
> yeah, SYNCSH_SERIALIZE is equal to what I do today using this construct:
>
> (flock -s 200; some-command $^ $@) 200>/var/lock/some-lockfile
>
> It satisfies the single-thread requirement, but in massively parallel
> runs, several of these often end up waiting for each other. It would be
> optimal if make knew not to submit more than 1 at a time, I was just
> wondering if I'd skipped a page in the manual :-)

Could you rephrase this? I can't see a meaningful distinction between
"waiting for each other" and "submit one at a time". Either way
they're serialized, no?

-David