Re: mxe-octave change

[PhilipNienhuis]

Markus wrote
> Am 2014-01-26 22:04, schrieb Philip Nienhuis:
>> John W. Eaton wrote
>>> I moved the functionality of the mk-dist script in the mxe-octave
>>> build system into the Makefile and removed the mk-dist script.
>>> 
>>> Now you just need to run
>>> 
>>>     make nsis-installer
>>> 
>>> or
>>> 
>>>     make tar-dist
>>> 
>>> to build everything and generate an installer or tar file containing
>>> all the files.
>>> 
>>> Currently this will build the stable-octave target.  If you have a
>>> previous build that used the octave target, then I think you'll end up
>>> with both versions included in the tar file or installer so some care
>>> is needed to avoid having unintended files in the binary distribution.
>>> Eventually I hope we can eliminate that problem so that the files that
>>> are included are predictable without having to run "make clean" first
>>> before building the installer (and everything else).
>> 
>> I don't know if it's caused by these changes, but nowadays I see that
>> 
>> "make -j4 nsis-installer"
>> 
>> spawns 4 simultaneous package download/build jobs, rather than doing 
>> the
>> download/build steps one by one and invoking all CPU cores to that 
>> package
>> build.
> 
> Hi Philip, afaik
> 
> make nsis-installer JOBS=4
> 
> invokes 4 threads to one package.

OK; well I must have overlooked that when I browsed through Makefile.in  :-)

Tomorrow night I'll give it a try

Philip




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