Re: dlltool not make -j2 friendly?

[Charles Wilson <cwilson at ece dot gatech dot edu>]

Urk. No, dlltool.c has the following snippet:

#define TMP_ASM		"dc.s"
#define TMP_HEAD_S	"dh.s"
#define TMP_HEAD_O	"dh.o"
#define TMP_TAIL_S	"dt.s"
#define TMP_TAIL_O	"dt.o"
#define TMP_STUB	"ds"

Looks pretty ugly.  I mean, you *could*
  #define TMP_ASM mktemp("dcXXXXXX.s")
or something, but then you're not error checking the result...

--Chuck


Christopher Faylor wrote:

> Has anyone noticed that dlltool does not play well with make -jN?
> 
> I was running multiple builds in the cygwin directory but was getting
> SEGVs from dlltool.  The reason is that multiple runs of dlltool are
> creating temporary object and assembler files in the build directory
> with the same name, which causes all sorts of confusion.
> 
> I don't see any obvious way to avoid this in the dlltool documentation.
> Is anyone aware of anything that I could do to alleviate this problem?
> 
> cgf
>