Re: [RFC]serialize the output of parallel make?

[Tim Murphy]

On 30 July 2010 09:55, Chiheng Xu <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 4:40 PM, Tim Murphy <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>
>>
>> You set talon as the shell for make and talon in turn runs whatever
>> the actual shell is but adds the serialisation.  there are a lot of
>> other nice things you can do with this - e.g. measuring the execution
>> time of every build step so that you can see what affects performance.
>
> Sorry, I don't understand this.
>
> You probably misunderstand the meaning of "serialization of output"
> and "parallel make".

No, I understand better than you think as I do huge parallel builds every day.

The shell wrapper buffers the recipe output and then grabs a semaphore
before writing the output to it's stdout..  if another recipe has
completed and is in the process of outputting to the stdout then it
has to wait a few microseconds.

This system works reliably and has given us de-scrambled output for
the last 2 years.

Regards,

Tim



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