Re: [gpsd-dev] Parallel build broken?

[Greg Troxel]

"Eric S. Raymond" <address@hidden> writes:

> Christian Gagneraud <address@hidden>:
>> This seem to be the workaround for people behind a proxy (like me, I
>> did the request indeed), but unfortunately it breaks parallel build.
>> :(
>
> I've fixed it to fail a bit more gracefully.  I'm not going to put too
> much more effort into it because...parallel build?  Really?  My machine
> is old and slow (2.66GHz Intel Core Duo) and the build after scons -c
> nevertheless takes just 22 seconds. And a lot of that is time to format the
> manual pages.  You may be over-optimizing a bit here. :-)

In 2013 (and really in 2008), not correctly coping with -jN for
arbitrary N is a bug.  Gary's points about bulk builds are valid, too.

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