On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 05:29:34 +0100, Jan Holesovsky wrote: > > 1) if the user specifies max-cpus, do we want max-jobs to default to > > max-cpus? Because that does make sense afaict. > > The buildsystem is a bit strange in this regard ;-) There are 2 levels > of what is done in parallel - one on the level of directories, and one > on what is done in the directory itself. Ie. if you did what you > propose, you'd get max-cpus * max-jobs in the 'ideal' situation.
We might explain that a bit better in the configure help text. I always forget which is the exquivalent to "make -j n". Perhaps in the brave gnu (make) world, we can simplify that to one switch? > > 2) why is the system so keen on ice-cream? Is it because it's a java > > technology? I note it's incompatible with distcc (which is what I've > > got, and which isn't much use without a pc farm). > > > > I've noticed other people moaning about ice-cream so should we remove > > all the "why haven't you got it?" stuff, or just disable it if distcc > > is installed? +1 for quiet down the icecream advertisment a bit, we should rather put instructions for that in our wiki. If someone configured to use distcc, we should not output icecream related stuff at all. So who comes up with a patch :-)? Sebastian
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