Re: [RFC]serialize the output of parallel make?

[Philip Guenther]

On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 11:29 PM, Chiheng Xu <address@hidden> wrote:
...
> My suggestion is that you can implement it as an optional command line
> option(like -j), and on one or two primary platforms(Linux/Windows),
> instead of on all platforms.

So, the complexity of both possibilities.  You're writing, debugging,
and contributing this code yourself?

(I would hope that this wouldn't require any Linux-specific code;
perhaps you meant "POSIX & Windows"?)


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> The scenario like "make -j4 2>/dev/null" may be very rare, but
> scenario like "make -j4  2>&1 |  tee output.txt" may be common.

And what, exactly, are you suggesting that make do to reflect that
guess about usage patterns?


Philip Guenther