Re: Bug#209008: debian-policy: [PROPOSAL] common interface for parallel building in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS
On Thu, Mar 08, 2007, Bastian Blank wrote:
> > Bug #209008 proposed to have a common interface to tell packages to do
> > parallel building (make -j).
> You can't set a generic value.
>
> For example: A machine with 6 cpus but only 256MiB ram. Building glibc
> with -j6 is no problem. Building gcj-* with -j6 is not possible.
We don't have a way to express RAM usage to build a package, AFAIK the
only available limit is toexclude some packages on some buildds; we
could do exactly the same in a world supporting parallel=n. We could
also tune the value on a machine like the one you describe.
--
Loïc Minier <lool@dooz.org>
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