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[Aleix Pol]

On Fri, Nov 14, 2014 at 1:30 PM, René J.V. <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Friday November 14 2014 12:41:20 Aleix Pol wrote:
>
> > I wouldn't. Make merges the output when there's different jobs and
> > sometimes looks weird... If people want a proper tool to build, they
> should
>
> True, but if you need to do debugging you can always step down to -j1
> instead of doing things the other way around.
>
> OTOH, I think that the default for targets like test/check and install
> ought to be -j1, and it may be asking too much from make (or ninja) to
> guess whether parallel execution is appropriate.
>
Ninja does.


>
> > just use ninja, IMHO.
>
> Last time I check, cmake didn't generate an install/fast target when using
> ninja. And that's really a nice one when tweaking large projects ...
>
It doesn't, on the other hand, ninja install is magnitudes faster.
Also the feature can be added to the cmake generator anyway, I guess.

Aleix
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