Re: [maint-guide] make -j1

[Osamu Aoki <osamu@debian.org>]

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 04:08:49PM +0200, Raphael Hertzog wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I know this but the public of maint-guide is packaging beginners and
> mentionning -j1 doesn't help them. And in fact -j1 is not always used, as
> you mention it might be -j2 or some other values if parallel building is
> enabled.

I got your point.  Come to think of it.... I state as "(over)simplified"
anyway.
 
> > I am leaning to ward reverting these changes while adding small footnote to
> > lead people to this fact.  These seems trivial point but it is important
> > when people start debugging for parallel build issues.  
> 
> If you want to treat of parallel build issues, do it in a separate
> section. Giving too much details at the beginning is counter productive.

Then, what do you think about ./configure arguments.

Currently (exact one):
./configure --build=<var>x86_64-linux-gnu</var> --prefix=/usr \
  --includedir=${prefix}/include --mandir=${prefix}/share/man \
  --infodir=${prefix}/share/info --sysconfdir=/etc \
  --localstatedir=/var --libexecdir=${prefix}/lib/<var>package</var> \
  --disable-maintainer-mode --disable-dependency-tracking

But newbie like me should only need to know:
./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var

Osamu