Re: make install / parallel

[Ralf Wildenhues]

Hello,

* NightStrike wrote on Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:24:57PM CET:
> Does automake allowing doing something like:
> 
> make -j5 install  ?

It should, yes, in the sense that it should not fail (but the speedup
may be rather limited).  If you encounter failure and think it's not a
bug in the Makefile.am files, please report it to bug-automake, thanks.

> I ask because executing /usr/bin/install for several thousand files is
> incredibly slow

I'm about to fix this (haven't applied the patch to master yet):
<http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/automake-patches/2008-01/msg00070.html>
You can help by reviewing or testing the patch if you have spare cycles.

Cheers, and thanks,
Ralf