Re: build farm machine using <make -j 8> mixed results

On 09/09/2012 05:00 PM, Tom Lane wrote:
> Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> writes:
>> But then the answer could be, if you want to use parallel make, use a
>> version that's not broken.
> That's not a terribly practical answer for people who use the "make"
> supplied by their OS vendor, which is approximately 99.9% of people.
> It's even less practical for packagers, who don't have a choice about
> what tool set to use.
>
> Even if I wanted to use a locally-patched make, I'm not sure I'd trust a
> patch that doesn't seem to have been signed off on by any actual gmake
> developer or maintainer. That sort of cure is frequently worse than the
> disease.
>
>

Right.

Meanwhile, I have buildfarm animal crake building with the experimental
buildfarm code, and so far the results look good.

cheers

andrew