serialize the reconfigure target ?

[David Holmes]

Hi Dave,

On 4/09/2014 7:59 PM, pointo1d wrote:
> Hi again David ,
>
> On 04/09/14 04:38, David Holmes wrote:
>> I naively assumed this would work:
>>
>> make reconfigure images
>>
>> There should be a way to serialize the top-level set of targets
>> without serializing all the sub-targets. That way this would work, as
>> would:
>>
>> make clean-foo foo
>>
>> which is something I (used to!) use a lot.
>>
>> And while I'm still complaining about the parallel activity the build
>> logs truly are a mess that needs to be fixed. In particular finding
>> build failures is now quite a challenge. :(
>>
>> Cheers,
>> David
>
> I've just discovered this page in the gmake manual -
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel-Output.html
> - or does this not address the problem ?

This option has been flagged by the build folk. The problem is that it 
is limited to specific make versions and AFAIK we do not yet use/support 
that in our various build systems. So while I can potentially use this 
for my own builds, most of the logs I have to descramble are coming from 
others.

Thanks,
David

> Rgds ,
>