Re: NOTPARALLEL rule for documentation directory

[Mike Miller]

On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:08 PM, John W. Eaton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On 28-Aug-2012, Rik wrote:
> | Not so specifically at this point; it was a few years ago.  With a little
> | googling I did find this
> | 
> (http://www.mail-archive.com/pld-cvs-commit%40lists.pld-linux.org/msg200381.html)
> | where Linux distribution maintainers were adding the .NOTPARALLEL directive
> | on their own to the 3.2.3 Makefiles.  They claim that the texi2XXX commands
> | (texi2dvi, texi2pdf) were not parallel-safe.
>
> OK, I see that since texinfo 4.9, released June 29, 2007, texi2dvi
> (and texi2pdf, since that is just a wrapper for texi2dvi --pdf) have
> an option for specifying the build directory.  Since that has been
> available for more than 5 years, I think it is reasonable to use it.
>
> I checked in the following change.
>
>   http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/rev/e787ba62aacf
>
> Does it work for you?

No problems for me while I was working in doc, but it leaves these
empty build directories behind.

So can NOTPARALLEL also be removed in doc, doc/faq, and doc/liboctave?

-- 
mike