Jeff KingWhen rendering the troff manpages to text via "man", we create an ad-hoc Makefile and feed it to "make". The purpose here is two-fold:
- reuse results from a prior interrupted render of the same tree
- use make's -j option to build in parallel
But the second part doesn't seem to work (at least with my version of GNU make, 4.2.1). It just runs one render at a time.
We use a double-colon "all" rule for each file, like:
all:: foo
foo:
...actual render recipe...
all:: bar
bar:
...actual render recipe...
...and so on...And it's this double-colon that seems to inhibit the parallelism. We can just switch to a regular single-colon rule. Even though we do have multiple rules for "all" here, we don't have any recipe to execute for "all" (we only care about triggering its dependencies), so the distinction is irrelevant.
Signed-off-by: Jeff King <peff@peff.net> --- This has been bugging me for a while. I'm not sure if it never worked and I didn't notice, or if it changed in some version of make.
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diff --git a/Documentation/doc-diff b/Documentation/doc-diff index 88a9b20168..1694300e50 100755 --- a/Documentation/doc-diff +++ b/Documentation/doc-diff @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ generate_render_makefile () { while read src do dst=$2/${src#$1/} - printf 'all:: %s\n' "$dst" + printf 'all: %s\n' "$dst" printf '%s: %s\n' "$dst" "$src" printf '\t@echo >&2 " RENDER $(notdir $@)" && \\\n' printf '\tmkdir -p $(dir $@) && \\\n'
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