On 07/03/07 at 19:32 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:08:52PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > 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. > > why not DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noparallel, like noopt ?
Actually DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=n" means: "build using n jobs in parallel", not "don't build in parallel" (this is still the default, of course) -- | 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]
