Re: Testing parallel builds
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:21:22AM -0400, Daniel Schepler wrote:
> On Monday 08 October 2007 07:50:58 am Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> >
> > in the latter case, is there any conventional way to parse
> > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS? last time i read about it there were a couple of ways
> > both having dark sides... ah.. BTW google is not able to provide me any
> > documentation of DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS. where is it documented?
>
> It's documented in Debian policy, but parallel hasn't been added there yet. I
> think the new dpkg-buildpackage -j<n> passes
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=<n>".
yes, it is in section 10.1. i was hoping some more documentation/use
was available. for instance, how one is supposed to set this variable? i
now know dpkg-buildpackage -jX sets it. what about other switches?
thanks,
domenico
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