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Re: parallel build options in source packages



On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:23:02PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:50:36AM -0600, Taral wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:07:19PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 07:48:32AM -0600, Taral wrote:
> > > > which is really a system dependent thing. Those builders who want
> > > > parallel builds will invoke debian/rules itself with -j 3. I don't
> > > > believe it belongs in the rules file itself.
> > > 
> > > That reasoning only works if we reject the proposal in #88029.
> > > If that passes, there's no guarantee that debian/rules will accept
> > > options at all.
> > 
> > In which case "make -j 3 -f debian/rules" will work as well.
> 
> Um... how?  It only works if debian/rules is a makefile, which is
> precisely my point.

debian/rules must be a parallel-safe makefile in addition. I know from
experience at least that gcc-2.95's rules file is not parallel-safe when
building a cross-compiler. ;)

And the kernel source is anything but parallel-safe right now.

-- Ferret



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