proposal for make help chain-build text
Jonathan Underwood
jonathan.underwood at gmail.com
Sun Sep 28 17:10:28 UTC 2008
2008/9/28 Patrice Dumas <pertusus at free.fr>:
> Hello,
>
> Here is a proposal for the result of make help for the chain-build
> target, what I changed relates with : and prallel builds:
>
> chain-build Build current package in order with
> other packages
> example: make chain-build CHAIN='libwidget libgizmo'
> The current package is added to the end of the CHAIN list.
> Colons (:) can be used in the CHAIN parameter to define
> parallely built package groups.
> Packages in a single group will be built in parallel,
> and all packages in a group must build successfully and
> populate the repository before the next group will begin building.
> For example
> make chain-build CHAIN='libwidget libaselib : libgizmo
> :'
> will cause libwidget and libaselib to be build in parallel,
> followed by libgizmo and then the current directory package.
> If no groups are defined, packages will be built sequentially.
Does chain-build also allow for boostrapping situation i.e. could one do
make chain-build CHAIN='libwidget libaselib : libgizmo : libwidget
to rebuild libwidget against the newly built libgizmo ?
J.
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