Re: parrallel make - order of process

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Gareth James Hughes <address@hidden> writes:

  gjh> Is there a variable that identifies the order of a parallel process?

  gjh> i.e. I have a make job that performs some action on a collection
  gjh> of flat-files (wildcarded), creating a stamp for each one.  I
  gjh> want to log the process for each file in a log file of the form
  gjh> <foo-bar-$(PARALLEL_ORDER).log>.

  gjh> So for make -j 4 I would process all the files (of which there
  gjh> are several thousand), but only write to logs to four output
  gjh> files:-

  gjh> foo-bar-1.log 
  gjh> foo-bar-2.log
  gjh> foo-bar-3.log
  gjh> foo-bar-4.log

No, there is nothing like that.  You can file an enhancement request at
the Savannah site for GNU make, if you like.

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