Hi Adam,
>No one's using a 1-core conventional computer these days. By failing to set >parallel=X you gain nothing but wait much longer, and miss issues like this. > >Why won't you put "export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=8" into your ~/.bashrc? >It's not like your number of cores changes, and even if it does, you can >export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=`nproc` > >(Please don't use `grep ^processor /proc/cpuinfo` nor `getconf >_NPROCESSORS_ONLN` as neither is portable enough.) I considered this a lot of times, and I discarded it. Sometimes having parallel=1 means better logs, ability to "meld" them and see when changes in toolchain breaks something (otherwise I couldn't easily spot regressions). Also, stuff like virtualbox or llvm builds would kill my computer with parallel=8 or whatever. So, at the end, I prefer to upload on DebOMatic and when not possible use my computer (or when things are trivial and I don't foresee issues) I'll probably reconsider this or maybe add a parallel=2 or 4 G.
