Hi, Bug #209008 proposed to have a common interface to tell packages to do parallel building (make -j).
Not having this is a PITA for me, since I do rebuilds of the whole Debian archive on clusters of machines, and my current total build time is only dependant of the time taken to build the largest packages (see slides 25-28 of [1] for details). For some reason, the discussion that happened back in 2003 isn't logged on the BTS, but can be read in [2]. Everyone seemed to agree on the proposal, but it was discussed whether this should be implemented as DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=n" or DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL=n. It would be great if consensus could be reached early in the lenny release cycle. A few packages already provide an interface to do parallel building, and I'd like to work on making all of them switch to the same interface. Thank you, [1] http://www-id.imag.fr/~nussbaum/fosdem07-gridqa-slides.pdf [2] http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2003/09/threads.html#00079 -- | Lucas Nussbaum | [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.lucas-nussbaum.net/ | | jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG: 1024D/023B3F4F | -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
