Re: running parallel make jobs and avoiding jumbled/garbled output?

[Alexander Kriegisch]

I experienced the same when I generated database dumps with "make -p".
(For those who read it a few days ago, this was when I developed the
little Perl add-on visualising dependency graphs.)

My workaround was to explicitly use "-j1", but this is not very
satisfactory. I would also be interested in a solution.

Per Jessen:
> I use "make -jN" quite a lot for parallelizing many jobs (all kinds, not
> just compile jobs).  The output is obviously jumbled, and it's not
> really very useful as such.  I don't mind that - I usually finish off
> such a parallel run with a single job that logs the status of the rest. 
> However, when I run such a parallel make via cron, the output is not
> just jumbled, it's garbled.  Lines are overwritten, lines are mixed,
> lines are missing, in particular my final status output.  Has anyone
> else experienced this and what have you done about it (if anything) ?