On Thu, 30 Nov 2017, Jeff King wrote: > On Wed, Nov 29, 2017 at 07:54:30PM +0000, Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason wrote: > > > Replace the perl/Makefile.PL and the fallback perl/Makefile used under > > NO_PERL_MAKEMAKER=NoThanks with a much simpler implementation heavily > > inspired by how the i18n infrastructure's build process works[1]. > > I'm very happy to see the recursive make invocation go away. The perl > makefile generation was one of the few places where parallel make could > racily get confused (though I haven't seen that for a while, so maybe it > was fixed alongside some of the other .stamp work you did). As a datapoint, I've seen it fairly regularly with -j8 in 2.15.1 builds from a clean tree that I've been doing recently. I'm looking forward to not having to make the choice between "maybe run it twice" or "compile slower" -- this looks great! - Alex
