Re: Disable parallel make on per pkg basis?

[Greg Schafer <gschafer zip com au>]

On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 07:35:01AM +0200, Jens Bech Madsen wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-09-02 at 04:22, Greg Schafer wrote:
> > Hi
> > 
> > On an SMP system I'm issuing "make -j 2 install" from the meta/gnome-desktop
> > dir.
> > 
> > All is sweet until it hits gnome-audio:-
> > 
> > ln: creating symbolic link `/opt/garnome/share/sounds/login.wav' to
> > `startup3.wav': No such file or directory                  
> > make[3]: *** [install-default-links] Error 1
> > 
> > A normal "make install" makes it work.
> > 
> > What is the best way to disable parallel make on a per pkg basis within the
> > GAR system? I've tried adding ".NOTPARALLEL:" to the gnome-audio Makefile
> > but this doesn't seem to work.
> 
> Add
> 
> BUILD_ARGS = -j1
> 
> to the Makefile.

Ahh, why didn't I spot that earlier :-)

Only trouble is, it doesn't work for gnome-audio. Probably coz it's the
"make install" that's crapping out.

I used

INSTALL_ARGS = -j1

and it works like a champ! Thanks for the clue.

Greg