[Stephan Kulow]

Am Donnerstag, 16. März 2006 03:17 schrieb Michael Pyne:

> I wouldn't quite bother yet.  unsermake still requires automake AFAIK so
> unless we manage to separate it from that dependency it wouldn't be
> horrifically useful.
Only for the autoconf part, so if that part is not used, it doesn't matter.
>
> It might not be hard to do so however and make it depend on cmake or
> something instead. :)
>
> It would be very nice to get unsermake to work though.  It's output is much
> nicer than make's (although it is certainly possible to get make to output
> the same I suppose), and it supports parallel compilation better.
I'd love to see that ;)
>
> Also, I believe the really useful part of --compile-jobs=, which no one
> seems to have brought up yet, is that directories full of man pages will
> break under parallel compilation as the build rule seems to involve
> outputting a temporary file with a set name and then renaming the temp file
> to the correct file name.
>
> e.g. maninput-foo -> temp.1 -> foo.1
>
> So when trying to convert multiple files to a man page simultaneously,
> things sometimes would break.
That's just because the style sheets for man pages hardcode a file name ;(

Greetings, Stephan