Re: PostgreSQL 9.2.7 on Power 8 / AIX 7.1

Rainer Tammer <pgsql(at)spg(dot)schulergroup(dot)com> writes:
> I have tried to run a parallel build, but that was not successful.
> Should a parallel build (make -j n; n > 1) work?

Yes; I routinely do -j8 or so, and I think many of the buildfarm members
are configured to use -j with various multipliers. Having said that,
we have seen (and worked around) some bugs in the parallel-build support
in some versions of gmake. There might be more :-(. What make version
are you using, and what failure did you see exactly?

(Of course, you could configure a buildfarm member with -j 1 as a
first step, and worry about parallelism later ...)

regards, tom lane