[Qt-interest] parallel building Qt on MSYS/MinGW

[Scott Aron Bloom]

Or the make files don't pass the make options to the sub make calls

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Subject: Re: [Qt-interest] parallel building Qt on MSYS/MinGW

Em Sexta-feira 18. Setembro 2009, às 17.50.07, Mark Brand escreveu:
> However, if I build a subproject separately, the "-j" option seems to 
> work as expected.  For example:
> 
>      cd src/sql
>      mingw32-make.exe -j 5
> 
> Can somebody tell me why this is? I'm not sure if this something I 
> don't understand about make, mingw, the Qt makefiles, or something else.
> 

I'd say it's a limitation of mingw32-make, not related to Qt at all.

It probably can compile multiple files simultaneously, but it can't run multiple sub-makes.

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