From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@gentoo.org>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] get_number_of_jobs
Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 17:55:59 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050512215559.GE27229@kaf.zko.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <564d96fb05051211408807e9b@mail.gmail.com>
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Rafael Espíndola wrote: [Thu May 12 2005, 02:40:46PM EDT]
> Why does get_number_of_jobs reduces the number of parallel jobs to "to
> ensure successful merge"? In my humble opinion if a package fails to
> compile with a large -j then the ebuild should know the limit and
> reduce it.
Nope, if a package doesn't build with large -j then the ebuild should
force -j1. Either a package is parallel build clean or it isn't. You
can't make the problem go away by using an intermediate value for -j;
it might work for you but it won't for somebody else.
Regards,
Aron
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Aron Griffis
Gentoo Linux Developer
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-12 18:40 [gentoo-dev] get_number_of_jobs Rafael Espíndola
2005-05-12 19:08 ` Mike Frysinger
2005-05-13 14:00 ` Daniel Goller
2005-05-12 21:55 ` Aron Griffis [this message]
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