Bug#209008: parallel building: DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS or DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL

[Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>]

On Mon, Sep 03, 2007 at 09:31:33AM -0500, Peter Samuelson wrote:
> 
> [Robert Millan]
> > Actually, you might be interested in knowing that this is possible right now,
> > without any change in dpkg-buildpackage, by using command injection via
> > gain-root-command:
> > 
> >   dpkg-buildpackage -r"fakeroot make -j 2 -f"
> 
> I doubt that works in the general case, only if the time-consuming and
> parallelizable part of the build is done in the binary-* targets
> instead of the build-* targets.  (The build and build-* targets are not
> run as root.)  Which should be relatively rare.

Ah, right.  I didn't quite think about it.

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