On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 21:14, Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ęvar Arnfjörš Bjarmason wrote: > >> Those interested in >> poking their eyes can try: >> >> while nice -n 30 make -j 15 clean all CFLAGS=-O0 CC=gcc; do 1; done > > You are asking make to simultaneously build and unbuild everything. > It does not really surprise me that it gets confused. > > Does > > while > nice -n 30 make -j 15 clean CFLAGS=-O0 CC=gcc && > nice -n 30 make -j 15 all CFLAGS=-O0 CC=gcc > do > : > done > > behave better? Yes that works. I thought that -j $n would mean that make would use $n jobs to complete the first target, then move onto the next. Not execute them all in paralell. Thanks, and I have no idea about those Makefile/Perl changes. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html