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#1925 mgwmake should use multiple make jobs

OTHER
closed
Charles Wilson
mgwport (1)
Feature
rejected
Aged_issue
False
2018-12-12
2012-11-30
Sebastian Schuberth
No

I would be nice if mgwport's mgwmake command [1] would by default pass "-j N" to make, where N is something like the number of available CPU cores + 1. The trick here probably is go the number of CPU core, as under MSYS there's nothing like /proc/cpuinfo AFAIK.

[1] https://gitorious.org/mgwport/mgwport/blobs/master/lib/src_compile.mgwpart

Discussion

  • Earnie Boyd

    Earnie Boyd - 2013-02-15

    Ticket moved from /p/mingw/feature-requests/124/

     

  • Earnie Boyd

    Earnie Boyd - 2013-02-15
    • labels: Suggested Feature --> mgwport
    • assigned_to: Charles Wilson
    • milestone: --> OTHER
    • type: --> Feature
    • resolution: --> none
    • category: --> Unknown
    • patch_attached: --> False
     

  • Sebastian Schuberth

    Sebastian Schuberth - 2013-05-16

    I realize mgwport's README says "parallel make is problematic under MSYS" [1]. Unfortunately it does not say why this is the case. But while it is, implementing this feature request probably is not a good idea.

    [1] https://gitorious.org/mgwport/mgwport/blobs/master/README#line457

     

  • Keith Marshall

    Keith Marshall - 2018-12-12
    • status: open --> closed
    • Resolution: none --> rejected
    • Category: Unknown --> Aged_issue
     

  • Keith Marshall

    Keith Marshall - 2018-12-12

    I'm rejecting this, for the following reasons:–

    • The original contributor, Charles Wilson, is no longer an active MinGW.org participant.
    • mgwport never worked for me anyway, on my LinuxMint host.
    • I prefer to promote mingw-pkg, (currently available here), as the modern replacement.
    • You, yourself, have acknowledeged that there may be obstacles to adoption of this particular feature.