From: Nicholas Clark Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 14:36:14 +0000 (+0000) Subject: Making make -j... work is a TODO X-Git-Url: http://git.shadowcat.co.uk/gitweb/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=46925299862a0e463c499a99799cb56d12e9b3a9;p=p5sagit%2Fp5-mst-13.2.git Making make -j... work is a TODO p4raw-id: //depot/perl@25431 --- diff --git a/pod/perltodo.pod b/pod/perltodo.pod index 0ae7aea..a4e655c 100644 --- a/pod/perltodo.pod +++ b/pod/perltodo.pod @@ -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 tweaking to let people specify how they want to do the install. +=head2 make parallel builds work +Currently parallel builds (such as C) don't work reliably. We believe +that this is due to incomplete dependency specification in the F. +It would be good if someone were able to track down the causes of these +problems, so that parallel builds worked properly.