parallel build with cmake?

Brad King brad.king at kitware.com
Mon Feb 20 15:13:16 CET 2006


Thiago Macieira wrote:
> Dirk Mueller wrote:
> 
>>On Monday, 20. February 2006 13:43, Thiago Macieira wrote:
>>
>>>What do you mean? make -jXX doesn't start XX parallel jobs?
>>
>>Well, it does, but the result is unpredictably failing.
> 
> Which means that the dependency tree in the Makefile is not being 
> correctly generated. We've seen the same issue happen sometimes with 
> qmake.

CMake should be correctly generating into the build system all the 
dependencies it has been given.  It is pretty well tested on parallel 
builds of other projects with lots of generated sources.  Someone will 
have to track down the missing dependencies.

-Brad


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