On Monday 08 October 2007 07:49:09 am Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 10:53:05AM +0000, Daniel Schepler wrote: > > Inspired by today's new upload of dpkg, I'm going to try doing a rebuild > > of the archive using "dpkg-buildpackage -j3" and submit bugs as I find > > them. The bugs will be wishlist for now, and I'll assign usertag > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:ftbfs-parallel to those bug reports for those > > interested in tracking the issue. > > Err please just don't. Many upstreams won't build properly with > parallel builds because their makefile just don't support it. Most > importantly, I believe that only the biggest packages benefit from a > parallel build, hence it should be an opt-in option that packagers may > use if their package support it, and if they believe it matters > (packages where build time is under the few minutes won't benefit from > it a lot e.g., as it's probable that most of the time is lost in the > configure and Debianization stages).
Then isn't that something that should be fixed? With dual-core processors becoming more and more common, I would expect some users (myself included) to be in the habit of typing `make -j2' or `dpkg-buildpackage -j3' to take advantage, and then get annoyed if it doesn't work. Especially when the easy work-around, if you don't want to bother adding the proper dependencies to the make targets, is just to add ".NOPARALLEL:" somewhere in the Makefile. Anyway, I'm aware a lot of packages will probably break at the moment, which is why I'm using wishlist. -- Daniel Schepler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
