Re: how to instruct gmake to read included fragmented makefiles paralally..

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2007-06-21 at 11:36 +0530, Divakar Venkata (divvenka) wrote:
> Here, is there a way to instruct gmake to read these fragmented
> makefiles paralally and create dependency graph..?

I agree with Philip; I'd be surprised if the actual parsing of the
makefiles was causing much slowdown.  The make parser is somewhat ad
hoc, but it's pretty fast overall.

However, to answer your question: no, there is no way to have make read
files in parallel.  In order to do that, make would have to be
multithreaded and that's a whole other level of complexity and system
requirements that is completely unnecessary.

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