Re: [PATCH] doc: Fix parallel build of roff files

Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Fix parallel build of roff files

Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2014 06:08:58 +0900

To: Austin Clements, notmuch@notmuchmail.org

Cc:

From: David Bremner


Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> writes:

> The roff build rule builds all of the roff files in a single command.
> Previously, this was expressed as a multi-target rule, but since this
> is equivalent to specifying a copy of the rule for each target, make
> -jN could start up to N parallel instances of this command.  Fix this
> by bottlenecking this rule through a single stamp file.

pushed, with comment typofixed.

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