building firebird fails without parallelism

Tue Feb 2 08:17:30 PST 2016

On Mon, Feb 01, 2016 at 10:21:58AM +0100, Stephan Bergmann wrote:
> On 01/30/2016 12:16 PM, Lionel Elie Mamane wrote:
>> On Sat, Jan 30, 2016 at 08:42:54AM +0100, Jean-Baptiste Faure wrote:

>>> It seems that the makefile generated to build Firebird in the master
>>> does not like the --without-parallelism option of the autogen.sh.

>> Fixed. Sorry for the regression.

>> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/libreoffice/core/commit/?id=1e38737b72ab3c3b550675ece22130c07b14577a

> I'm not aware of any other external modules where we explicitly pass down
> the parallelism setting.  If we did, running a top-level make could become
> problematic for some, when the requested parallelism of N happens to result
> in an effective parallelism of N^2.  Just saying.

Yes, you are right. I was lazy / approximate again.

https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/22055 has a perhaps Rube Goldberg-esque
attempt at making a system that makes it right :)

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Lionel