Re: parallels build

[Kristof Provost]

On 2009-05-03 13:47:39 (+0200), Frederic Scherma <address@hidden> wrote:
> GMake don't start many jobs if I set -j2 or more. If I show processes list I 
> see only one g++ or gcc running at time, and I see only one core of my CPU 
> used.
> 
> I've tried --jobs=2 too and same result :/ I've tried -j without value, and 
> with a big value like 16 or 32 nothing works.
It's possible the dependency structure of your makefile simply doesn't
allow parallellisation of the build. Can you reproduce the problem with
a smaller makefile or show us the full makefile?

Regards,
Kristof

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