Re: Bug#842528: RFS: wide-dhcpv6/20080615-17 -- DHCPv6 server/client for automatic IPv6 hosts configuration

[Gianfranco Costamagna <locutusofborg@debian.org>]

Hi Adam,


>No one's using a 1-core conventional computer these days.  By failing to set

>parallel=X you gain nothing but wait much longer, and miss issues like this.
>
>Why won't you put "export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=8" into your ~/.bashrc?
>It's not like your number of cores changes, and even if it does, you can
>export DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=parallel=`nproc`
>
>(Please don't use `grep ^processor /proc/cpuinfo` nor `getconf

>_NPROCESSORS_ONLN` as neither is portable enough.)


I considered this a lot of times, and I discarded it.
Sometimes having parallel=1 means better logs, ability to "meld" them and see
when changes in toolchain breaks something (otherwise I couldn't easily spot
regressions).
Also, stuff like virtualbox or llvm builds would kill my computer with parallel=8 or
whatever.

So, at the end, I prefer to upload on DebOMatic and when not possible use my computer
(or when things are trivial and I don't foresee issues)

I'll probably reconsider this or maybe add a parallel=2 or 4

G.