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Date:      Fri, 12 Nov 2004 12:23:30 +0100
From:      "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@freebsd.org>
Cc:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: [TEST] make -j patch [take 2] 
Message-ID:  <96526.1100258610@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:17:32 %2B0200." <20041112111732.GH41844@ip.net.ua> 

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In message <20041112111732.GH41844@ip.net.ua>, Ruslan Ermilov writes:
>
>On Fri, Nov 12, 2004 at 11:24:12AM +0100, Harti Brandt wrote:
>> It would actually give me _more_ control over make's behaviour. I could,
> 
>> for example, build the tool with -j4, but run the tool with -j2. Suppose
> 
>> that is a long running regression test that I don't want to occupy my 
>> 4 processor machine, but I want the tool for the test to build fast.
>> 
>Here's the patch that changes the -j behavior the way I want it:

I think that patch is a bad idea.

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