On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 3:35 PM, John H Palmieri <jhpalmier...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 2:38:38 PM UTC-7, Ondrej Certik wrote: >> >> On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> >> wrote: >> > IMHO the list of installed files is an integral piece of package >> > management >> > and should explicitly be part of the spkg. Automatically generating it >> > is >> > not an option during parallel compilation. There should be a >> > "spkg-files" or >> >> That's a good point, didn't occur to me, that it won't work for >> parallel compilation. >> >> Does Sage work with parallel installation of packages? > > Absolutely. Do: > > $ export SAGE_PARALLEL_SPKG_BUILD=yes > $ export MAKE='make -j8' > $ make > > See the installation guide for information about the relevant environment > variables. I think that we should set SAGE_PARALLEL_SPKG_BUILD to "yes" > automatically -- it works very well, according to everyone I've talked to > about it.
And short of making it the default, at least it could be documented in the README file or the Makefile (in addition to the install guide): wstein@ubuntu:~/sage-4.7$ grep "SAGE_PARALLEL" * wstein@ubuntu:~/sage-4.7$ > > -- > John > > -- > To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com > To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to > sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel > URL: http://www.sagemath.org > -- William Stein Professor of Mathematics University of Washington http://wstein.org -- To post to this group, send an email to sage-devel@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to sage-devel+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sage-devel URL: http://www.sagemath.org
