[fpc-devel] FPC on Intel and AMD dual core processors

[Jonas Maebe]

On 05 Jul 2007, at 08:58, Brad Campbell wrote:

> I'm using it on a Core Duo here. The biggest issue I've found is a  
> multi-threaded make of the entire source tree.
>
> make -j3 will die as it tries to link a library that has not  
> finished compiling yet. I've reverted to a single threaded build  
> and it works fine. Just a race I guess.

No, it's simply that all dependencies are not specified in the  
makefiles. Doing so for all the individual units in each directory is  
a lot of work (like e.g. the rtl), and it's also not very easy in  
case one package depends on another (I still haven't found the  
correct way to do that).


Jonas