Serializing possibly resource-intensive tasks such as meinproc

[Alexander Neundorf]

On Monday 11 January 2010, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> On Monday 11 of January 2010, Alexander Neundorf wrote:
> > On Friday 08 January 2010, Lubos Lunak wrote:
> > > On Thursday 07 of January 2010, Oswald Buddenhagen wrote:
> > > > a more generic solution would be recognizing a KDE4_TOOL_WRAPPER
> > > > cmake variable and prepending it to all non-c-compiler executables.
> > >
> > >  How about the attached patch then?
> >
> > Looks quite ok.
> > The name "KDE4_SERIALIZE_TOOL" is quite generic, but in the patch it is
> > used only for meinproc4, so this doesn't really match.
>
>  Coolo suggested to me how to make icecream serialize only down to the
> number of CPUs instead of 1, so I can try that. In that case
> KDE4_SERIALIZE_TOOL could be used for anything people would want, although
> I myself care only about meinproc.
>
>  In fact, it'd be probably worth sending it to cmake upstream, I bet
> somebody has already reported them various cmake's shortcomings in dealing
> with parallel make when compared to unsermake.

Please do :-)

Alex