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+From: Tomi Ollila <tomi.ollila@iki.fi>\r
+To: Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU>, notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Re: [PATCH] doc: Fix parallel build of roff files\r
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+On Thu, Apr 17 2014, Austin Clements <amdragon@MIT.EDU> wrote:\r
+\r
+> The roff build rule builds all of the roff files in a single command.\r
+> Previously, this was expressed as a multi-target rule, but since this\r
+> is equivalent to specifying a copy of the rule for each target, make\r
+> -jN could start up to N parallel instances of this command. Fix this\r
+> by bottlenecking this rule through a single stamp file.\r
+>\r
+> This also removes the unused man.stamp from CLEAN.\r
+> ---\r
+> doc/Makefile.local | 11 +++++++++--\r
+> 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)\r
+>\r
+> diff --git a/doc/Makefile.local b/doc/Makefile.local\r
+> index 0980c71..5cf140d 100644\r
+> --- a/doc/Makefile.local\r
+> +++ b/doc/Makefile.local\r
+> @@ -35,7 +35,13 @@ MAN_GZIP_FILES := $(addsuffix .gz,${MAN_ROFF_FILES})\r
+> \r
+> # Use the man page converter that is available. We should never depend\r
+> # on MAN_ROFF_FILES if a converter is not available.\r
+> -${MAN_ROFF_FILES}: ${MAN_RST_FILES}\r
+> +${MAN_ROFF_FILES}: $(DOCBUILDDIR)/.roff.stamp\r
+> +\r
+> +# By using $(DOCBUILDDIR)/roff.stamp instead of ${MAN_ROFF_FILES}, we\r
+> +# convey to make that a single invocation of this receipe builds all\r
+\r
+LGTM. This 'receipe' could be amended to recipe(?:)\r
+\r
+> +# of the roff files. This prevents parallel make from starting an\r
+> +# instance of this recipe for each roff file.\r
+> +$(DOCBUILDDIR)/.roff.stamp: ${MAN_RST_FILES}\r
+> ifeq ($(HAVE_SPHINX),1)\r
+> $(SPHINXBUILD) -b man $(ALLSPHINXOPTS) $(DOCBUILDDIR)/man\r
+> for section in 1 5 7; do \\r
+> @@ -48,6 +54,7 @@ else\r
+> @echo "Fatal: build dependency fail."\r
+> @false\r
+> endif\r
+> + touch ${MAN_ROFF_FILES} $@\r
+> \r
+> # Do not try to build or install man pages if a man page converter is\r
+> # not available.\r
+> @@ -70,5 +77,5 @@ endif\r
+> $(dir)/docdeps.mk: $(dir)/conf.py $(dir)/mkdocdeps.py\r
+> $(mkdocdeps) $(srcdir)/doc $(DOCBUILDDIR) $@\r
+> \r
+> -CLEAN := $(CLEAN) $(DOCBUILDDIR) $(dir)/docdeps.mk $(dir)/man.stamp\r
+> +CLEAN := $(CLEAN) $(DOCBUILDDIR) $(dir)/docdeps.mk $(DOCBUILDDIR)/.roff.stamp\r
+> CLEAN := $(CLEAN) $(MAN_GZIP_FILES) $(MAN_ROFF_FILES)\r
+> -- \r
+> 1.9.1\r
+>\r
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