On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 18:08:52 +0100, Lucas Nussbaum wrote: > Bug #209008 proposed to have a common interface to tell packages to do > parallel building (make -j).
> 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. The first option needs more code to parse it. And I don't think it's a good idea to allow it not taking a parameter, that will also increase substantially the code to set the value, and make it quite unportable (due to its need to get info from /proc or similar). The person triggering the build is the one with enough information to decide what value should be appropriate, and as a counter argument for packages needing special amounts of memory/cpu we have similar global overrides for build timeouts in the buildds. There's also in use in some packages (most notably kernel-package) the CONCURRENCY_LEVEL variable, but the name seems less consistent. Personally I'd favour DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL. regards, guillem -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
