[Bf-committers] more on Scons!

John K. Walton bf-committers@blender.org
Sat, 13 Dec 2003 21:15:50 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 13 Dec 2003, Chris Reichow wrote:

>  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".

yeah, i can read that much. but does it work? make -j does not work for
NaN makefiles. 
 
> -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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