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Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 17:56:39 +0100
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: what's up with "make -j N" output?
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On Mon, Jan 18, 2010 at 10:24:14PM +0200, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> Script does effectively:
> 
> 	make -k -j5 &>1.log

My automated builds effectively run a number of "make -j 1" builds in
parallel so I get sane parsable and readable logs.  I don't think we
give any guarantees for -j 2 or higher even though that would be highly
desirable when things go wrong.

  Ralf