Does anybody ever use "make build-serial"?

Jeroen Demeyer

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May 26, 2015, 5:52:46 AM5/26/15

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Hello,

when support for building Sage in parallel was added, a target
"build-serial" was added to the top-level Makefile. However, I don't
think that this actually has a use-case.

In order to simplify building Sage, I propose to remove this target.

My eventual goal is to move more stuff from the top-level Makefile down
into build/Makefile (and possibly a new src/doc/Makefile)

Francois Bissey

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May 26, 2015, 5:58:49 AM5/26/15

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> On 26/05/2015, at 21:52, Jeroen Demeyer <jdem...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> when support for building Sage in parallel was added, a target "build-serial" was added to the top-level Makefile. However, I don't think that this actually has a use-case.
>

Can’t think of one either.

> In order to simplify building Sage, I propose to remove this target.
>

+1

Simon King

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May 26, 2015, 6:04:04 AM5/26/15

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Hi!

On 2015-05-26, Francois Bissey <francoi...@canterbury.ac.nz> wrote:
>> On 26/05/2015, at 21:52, Jeroen Demeyer <jdem...@cage.ugent.be> wrote:
>> when support for building Sage in parallel was added, a target "build-serial" was added to the top-level Makefile. However, I don't think that this actually has a use-case.
>>
>
> Can’t think of one either.

Neither can I. If I recall correctly, exporting MAKE="make -j1" forces a
serial build. And I have never heard of that make target before...

Best regards,
Simon

Nathann Cohen

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May 26, 2015, 7:01:05 AM5/26/15

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Neither can I. If I recall correctly, exporting MAKE="make -j1" forces a
serial build. And I have never heard of that make target before...