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authorNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2005-09-17 14:36:14 +0000
committerNicholas Clark <nick@ccl4.org>2005-09-17 14:36:14 +0000
commit46925299862a0e463c499a99799cb56d12e9b3a9 (patch)
tree74472df1a568d10c215159dcb2a185982185eba0 /pod
parent30222c0f41971add379ea16c00a07c51f510eb5d (diff)
downloadperl-46925299862a0e463c499a99799cb56d12e9b3a9.tar.gz
Making make -j... work is a TODO
p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25431
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@@ -220,7 +220,12 @@ The C level patches needed to create a relocatable perl binary are done, as
is the work on Config.pm. All that's left to do is the C<Configure> tweaking
to let people specify how they want to do the install.
+=head2 make parallel builds work
+Currently parallel builds (such as C<make -j3>) don't work reliably. We believe
+that this is due to incomplete dependency specification in the F<Makefile>.
+It would be good if someone were able to track down the causes of these
+problems, so that parallel builds worked properly.