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Ace17 on March 5, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: What's in a Build Tool?

This is exactly why it should be the default. Defaulting to parallel builds would stop the epidemy of broken makefiles from growing.

Users of legacy makefiles would have to explicitely use "make -j1", or specify ".NOTPARALLEL:" in the makefile - no big deal.

(As a beneficial side effect, defaulting to parallel builds would create an incentive for fixing sloppy makefiles).

abiox on March 5, 2016 [–]

callously harming existing and long-term users in the pursuit of some narcissistic ideological goal seems risky.

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