Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] update: Qt 4.7.0 RC1

[Tony Theodore]

On 19 September 2010 05:54, Volker Grabsch <address@hidden> wrote:
> Mark Brand <address@hidden> schrieb:
>>> I just tried something that is working on OSX, I suspect FreeBSD will
>>> be the same (I'm running it in a vm and it takes 145 mins to run).
>>>
>>> -        MAKEFLAGS="-j '$(JOBS)'" \
>>> +        MAKEFLAGS="-j $(JOBS)" \
>>>
>>> It looks like the ' surrounding a number is the problem.
>>
>> I'd like to hear what Volker's thinks about this. Is it OK to remove the
>> single quotes?
>
> In that particular case, this might be okay, but note that this
> could get you into serious trouble in the unlikely case that $(JOBS)
> is empty.
>
> However, as I've seen, you removed that line later altogether. This
> is also fine, because in general we prefer stability over speed. :-)

It only affects the configure/native stage, the rest of the build runs
in parallel. I just tried timing the difference - 2m59s in parallel,
3m26s single. Contrast to the 45m of the entire build...

Cheers,

Tony