wine users - Apr 2012 - Building Wine with multiple jobs

Hello!

As far as I know, the correct procedure to build Wine goes:

Code:
./configure [options]
make depend
make


When using a multicore CPU, to speed up the build, one can tell make to run more
jobs, thus use all the cores. Now, the thing is: I have read [don't remember
where exactly, it was quite long ago], that it is only OK to use it with the
last step (make), but is an inherently bad idea to use with "make
dep".
Out of curiosity, I did try to run "make -j9 depend" (I am using an
8-core CPU). It did not complain at all, built without any problems, and Wine
itself ran as well as always.
I am wondering: was what I read before false, I got lucky this one time, or it
just looks like it built and runs well while there is some problem "hiding
in the shadows"?
In short: is it OK to run "make depend" with multiple jobs (i.e.
"make -j[some_number] depend")?

Vinska wrote:
> I am wondering: was what I read before false, I got lucky this one time, or
it just looks like it built and runs well while there is some problem
"hiding in the shadows"?
It always depends on a project. Make system is a complicated beast and not
everyone gets it right.

As far as Wine goes - you can do both (dependency and build) with multiple jobs.
If it doesn't work - file a bug and it should be fixed. The only thing
that's known not to work in parallel are the tests (make test).