[fpc-devel] FPC 2.4.2 RC1 available

[Mark Morgan Lloyd]

Jonas Maebe wrote:
> On 22 Oct 2010, at 16:35, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
> 
>> On Fri, 22 Oct 2010, Jonas Maebe wrote:
>>
>>> The dependencies are specified in the Makefiles themselves.
>>
>> But manually, if I'm correct ?
> 
> Yes.
> 
>> But what happens if 2 units use each other ?
> 
> The dependencies are specified at the package level, not at the unit 
> level. A package is either compiled completely sequentially, or 
> completely in parallel (if none of the units depend on others, like with 
> univint package).

Please note that I'm not complaining, merely reporting what I've seen. 
I've not checked yet to what extent the build will recover if restarted, 
I think I remember a Linux kernel build failing in some cases on large 
systems but sorting itself out if the make command was rerun.

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Mark Morgan Lloyd
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