Re: Parallel build with MSVC

* From: Michael Paquier [mailto:michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com]

> On Wed, Apr 27, 2016 at 4:06 PM, Christian Ullrich <chris(at)chrullrich(dot)net>
> wrote:

> > * From: Michael Paquier [mailto:michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com]

> >> vcbuild also supports /m. Wouldn't it make sense to have a environment
> >> variable flag for it as well? vcbuild has been replaced by msbuild in
> >> VS2010 but I would think that in back-branches this would have value
> >> for users still compiling with VS2008 or older, and those are still
> >> supported things.
> >
> > Good point, but I have no installation of 2008 around, so I cannot test
> > it. Perhaps there is someone around who could do that (just add the
> > $msbflags as the first argument to vcbuild)?
>
> I forgot that I have actually one! Bumping my Win7 VM CPU from 1 to 2,
> and using VS2008 command prompt with vcbuild /m I am not seeing
> issues. Moving symbols.out would be the main issue, but I am not
> noticing problems related to that.

OK then, hopefully last round attached.

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Christian