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Building documentation in parallel
From: |
John W. Eaton |
Subject: |
Building documentation in parallel |
Date: |
Wed, 29 Aug 2012 14:17:35 -0400 |
On 29-Aug-2012, Rik wrote:
| I checked in a changeset that I think solves the parallel build problem
| completely (http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/87f337783d95).
| There was a problem with the last attempt in that multiple directories were
| being created. Because the name of each directory had the process ID in
| it, the directory name was unique and Tex could not find the cached
| results. Thus, every build was a new build which takes about 4X the time
| of a cached build. I renamed the directory for intermediate results to be
| a fixed name (t2d_cache) and added a local clean rule to remove it if you
| type 'make clean'. I extended this change to the other doc directories as
| well.
Previously, I used different directories for texi2dvi and texi2pdf.
Does that matter? Is there a possibility for collision if the cache
directories are the same for both and they happen to run at the same
time?
jwe