Re: [PATCH 1/1] gdk-pixbuf: fix parallel install issue

[Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sun, 2012-08-05 at 18:32 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Fri, 2012-08-03 at 11:30 +0800, wenzong.fan@windriver.com wrote:
> 
> > Make an explicit dependency to the libs install targets would fix this
> > issue.
> 
> I don't think Yocto should be running the 'make install' target with
> parallelism enabled; it's just going to be a source of major pain for
> small gain.  Historically Automake's install targets have had a lot of
> paralleism issues AIUI, even discarding modules which have custom
> install hooks.

We did used to steer clear of this but more recently tested it out and
with a few exceptions (which we disabled with PARALLEL_MAKEINST=""),
parallel make install seems to work fine and did give a small but
measurable speed-up (I'd have to look at the archives to remember what).

It helps that we use the latest automake everywhere and regenerate all
the makefiles ourselves.

So whilst I agree with this from a historical perspective, times so seem
to be changing and improving. If there are issues I do want to know
about and deal with them though.

Cheers,

Richard