On Sun, 2015-05-10 at 19:56:49 +0200, Julien Cristau wrote: > On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 18:49:25 +0100, Wookey wrote: > > I'm happy if you change this - it seems like fixing a bug to me, but I > > will just throw in this observation from recent arm64 archive-rebuilds, > > that -j and DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel= are not exactly the same. Is > > that expected?
Yes, this is expected, there was a bug report recently asking to clarify this in the man page, fixed in master and will be included in the upcoming dpkg 1.18.0 release. > dpkg-buildpackage -j is buggy. No. This is the equivalent distinction between: $ make -jN -f debian/rules build and $ DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=N debian/rules build You might not like the behavior, and that is fine, but that does not make it buggy. (And BTW debuild also sets MAKEFLAGS.) > It sets MAKEFLAGS whether the package > supports parallel builds or not. Whereas setting DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS lets > the package know it's allowed to use more processes if it wants to / > can, but doesn't have to. Actually Makefiles that do not support parallel builds and do not declare so with .NOTPARALLEL: are buggy, because upstreams do not have any standardized opt-in way to honor a parallel build request. Regards, Guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-dpkg-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150511184016.ga18...@gaara.hadrons.org
