Hi Many Debian packages don't use more than 1 CPU even when passing -j$n to dpkg-buildpackage with $n > 1.
(Concretely, my build command is: dpkg-buildpackage -uc -us -b -r'fakeroot -u' -j2 ) I'm surprised that this is the case even in today's 'testing', considering that most machines are multi-core now and I would expect maintainers to be impatient themselves. Anyway, today I've noticed the following line when building some package: make[1]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1. Add `+' to parent make rule. Googling found me http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-make/2011-03/msg00045.html which mentions to use $$(MAKE) instead of $(MAKE). I haven't looked into the package build files yet because I'm lazy and am usually put off by the usual complexity of builds. I'm asking myself whether I should look into these packages and attempt to apply the above fix somewhere. Then I'm asking what others are doing to remedy the situation. And in the end I decide to just at least dump this information here in case it would be useful for someone who might actually do something about it... Christian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/caejywfxtht-pzisv1lkqouwn75feh+-ga+jjwr2wdwsleb5...@mail.gmail.com
