[PolyORB-users] Bug: parallel build does not work

[Reto Buerki]

Jérôme Hugues wrote:
> Le 25 avr. 09 à 20:31, Reto Buerki a écrit :
> 
>> I'm trying to build the latest polyorb subversion checkout (r143261)
>> with multiple simultaneous make jobs. The build fails at the beginning
>> with:
>>
>> $ make -j3
>> make: *** No rule to make target `compilers/gnatprfh/gnatprfh', needed
>> by `src/soap/polyorb-http_methods.adb'.  Stop.
>> make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
>>
>> The same config works when not building in parallel.
>>
>> configure command used:
>> ./configure --prefix=/tmp
>>
>> system: Debian/Lenny
>>
>> What could be the problem here? Please tell me if you need more
>> information to debug this.
> 
> 
> You should not need to tell make to perform parallel build, this is
> handled already in the makefile, using "-j4" as default, see
> 
> Makefile.in:# the command line if needed. Also, need to specify
> PARALLEL_GNATMAKE_FLAGS
> Makefile.in:PARALLEL_GNATMAKE_FLAGS = -j4
> Makefile.in:BASE_GNATMAKE_FLAGS      := ${ADAFLAGS}
> ${PARALLEL_GNATMAKE_FLAGS} ${EXTRA_GNATMAKE_FLAGS}
> 
> The problem here is that make does not know how to build in parrallel
> correctly, whereas gnatmake does.

Thanks for the quick reply! I missed the PARALLEL_GNATMAKE_FLAGS
definition in Makefile.in. Now it's clear.

- reto