parallel compilation in the dashboards

[Matt Rogers]

On Friday 31 March 2006 11:21, William A. Hoffman wrote:
> At 12:01 PM 3/31/2006, Matt Rogers wrote:
> >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.
>
> You could try adding a -V -V to the ctest that runs this script, and check
> the extra output.
>
> -Bill
>

Apparently, MAKECOMMAND doesn't have a whole lot of effect on things. :)

snipped output below, full output until i stopped it at 
http://www.rafb.net/paste/results/0FUlDL17.html

-- Build files have been written 
to: /home/matt/kde/dashboard/continuous/kdelibs
 Size of output: 17K
Command exited with the value: 0
Build project
Run command: "/usr/bin/make" "-i"
   Each symbol represents 1024 bytes of output.
   '!' represents an error and '*' a warning.


Thanks for the support
--
Matt