Re: Installing Signal

Henrik, hello.

On 11 Aug 2024, at 9:33, Henrik Morsing wrote:

> I tried running make with -j but that instantly bombed out with an 
> error. No idea why, I didn't think that would ever not work.

Parenthetically to your main question: it turns out to be quite easy to 
write a Makefile which will fail with -j (or, perhaps better put, I find 
it often takes at least a little effort to adjust a working Makefile so 
that it also works with -j).

If non-trivial dependencies are incompletely expressed, then a non-j 
Make run might work by accident, as a consequence of the (consistent) 
order in which Make serialises the dependency tree.  It might work only 
because an un-expressed dependency is created as a side-effect of an 
action that happens to be called relatively early.

Best wishes,

Norman


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