parallel compilation in the dashboards

[Matt Rogers]

On Friday 31 March 2006 10:04, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 10:40 AM 3/31/2006, Matt Rogers wrote:
> >On Friday 31 March 2006 09:35, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> >> At 10:17 AM 3/31/2006, Matt Rogers wrote:
> >> >and replying to myself:
> >> >
> >> >I'm attempting to override the MAKECOMMAND variable to add "-j4" in the
> >> >CMakeCache.txt file for continuous builds, but that doesn't have the
> >> > desired effect. Should I override something else as well?
> >>
> >> That should work, what is in the CMakeCache.txt that you have?
> >> The notes file looks good.   I assume, you re-ran the script after
> >> added the -j4, as it only writes the cache the first time.
> >
> >The CMakeCache.txt file has the following:
> >
> >//Missing description
> >MAKECOMMAND:STRING=/usr/bin/make -i -j4
> >
> >i've just been letting the script run via the cron job and the -j4 has
> > been in there for a few days. I'll try again with a clean builddir and
> > see if that helps.
>
> If that is what is there, that is what it should be using.
> Can you describe what is happening?  If you want you can
> take it off the list and send the email to me directly,
> and we can post the result.
>
>
the distributed compiler is used, but only one job is run at a time. it's very 
much like the "-j4" parameter to make is not used or does not take effect.
--
Matt