[gtkada] parallel build support

[John Marino]

On 7/1/2013 16:15, John Marino wrote:
> On 7/1/2013 16:11, Emmanuel Briot wrote:
>>> If others can confirm that gtkada does not support parallel-building,
>>> might I request this feature?
>>
>> It works fine on *all* the platforms we build GtkAda on.
>> I am talking about parallelism done by gprbuild, using the PROCESSORS
>> environment
>> variable. There is no reason to use "make -j …" since the build itself
>> is done with one
>> command anyway.
>
> Okay, I think I have an idea of what's happening.
> the value for "PROCESSORS" is set by the $MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER variable,
> which is always "1" unless $MAKE_JOBS_SAFE is defined.
>
> However, defining that turns on -j option for gmake.
>
> So that's probably the issue -- I need to figure out how to defined
> PROCESSORS without triggering -j, right?

To follow up,
This approach worked, GtkAda built in parallel when I effectively 
suppressed -j while setting PROCESSORS.

Thanks,
John