[Bf-committers] more on Scons!

[Chris Reichow]

 From the Scons man page (http://www.scons.org/doc/HTML/scons-man.html):

 >scons supports building multiple targets in parallel via a -j option 
 >that takes, as its argument, the number of simultaneous tasks that may 
 >be spawned:
 >
 >scons -j 4
 >
 >builds four targets in parallel, for example.

Looks  like parallel building is built-in functionality, much like "make 
-j".

-Chris Reichow
chris@reichow.net

John K. Walton wrote:
> 
> Michel from the FAQ:
> 
> 5.3. Does SCons support building in parallel, like make's -j option?
> 
> Yes, SCons is designed from the ground up to support a -j option for
> parallel builds.
> 
> 
> is the parallel make functionality builtit or do you have to code
> for it explicitely? 'support' doesn't mean' you get it for free' :-)
> thanks!
> John
> 
> 
> On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Michel Selten wrote:
> 
> 
>>Hi,
>>
>>I forgot 1 very important feature of Scons that I should've mentioned in
>>my previous mail.
>>Scons does not generate makefiles. It directly builds from the SCons
>>configuration files.
>>
>>With regards,
>>	Michel
>>
>>
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