Bug#209008: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
On 07/03/07 at 19:32 +0100, Mike Hommey wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:08:52PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum <lucas@lucas-nussbaum.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Bug #209008 proposed to have a common interface to tell packages to do
> > parallel building (make -j).
> >
> > Not having this is a PITA for me, since I do rebuilds of the whole
> > Debian archive on clusters of machines, and my current total build time
> > is only dependant of the time taken to build the largest packages (see
> > slides 25-28 of [1] for details).
> >
> > For some reason, the discussion that happened back in 2003 isn't logged
> > on the BTS, but can be read in [2]. Everyone seemed to agree on the
> > proposal, but it was discussed whether this should be implemented as
> > DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=n" or DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL=n.
>
> why not DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noparallel, like noopt ?
Actually DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=n" means: "build using n jobs in
parallel", not "don't build in parallel" (this is still the default, of
course)
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