Right now this is mostly for convenience - to enable supporting both the master version of GHC 7.7 and the parmake branch. In the future this will be less important - unless GHC HQ opts to disable parallel --make on some

#910: --make should have a -j flag for parallel building -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Reporter: igloo | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: patch Priority: normal | Milestone: _|_ Component: Compiler | Version: 6.4.2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Difficulty: Unknown Test Case: N/A | Blocked By: 8184, 8235 Blocking: | Related Tickets: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------ Comment (by parcs): Replying to [comment:49 refold]: platforms for

some reason.

Implementing this is trivial: just add a `("Supports parallel --make", "YES")` tuple to the list returned by compiler/main/DynFlags.compilerInfo. I can write a patch myself if you want.

OK, done. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/910#comment:50 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler