On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 03:17:27AM +0200, Henning Makholm wrote: > Scripsit Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > If package maintainer wants to build it faster on their own machine, I > > would imagine that checking for an environment variable (DEB_MAKE_OPTS > > or something, perhaps?) and using that would be the way to go. By > > default, build with a single processor. > > If I understand the problem correctly, it is not even necessary to > modify debian/rules to get this behavior. If the interdependencies > are properly declared, > > $ debian/rules -j42 binary > > should do the trick, as GNU make is smart enough to pass the option > down to sub-makes that it starts.
Yes and no. * It only works if debian/rules calls make as `$(MAKE)'; not if it calls it as `make' or even `/usr/bin/make'. In the latter case, it just considers it some random program (rather than a sub-make) and will not pass the flags it received down to it. * It only works if the build system of the package does indeed use GNU make, and not something else, like pmake, smake, or SCons. -- Fun will now commence -- Seven Of Nine, "Ashes to Ashes", stardate 53679.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
