From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from outbound4.mail.tds.net (outbound4.mail.tds.net [216.170.230.94]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j4CLvEU1028186 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 21:57:14 GMT Received: from piment.flatmonk (h69-21-250-182.69-21.unk.tds.net [69.21.250.182]) by outbound4.mail.tds.net (8.13.4/8.12.2) with ESMTP id j4CLv9JR028562 for ; Thu, 12 May 2005 16:57:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: by piment.flatmonk (Postfix, from userid 10208) id 5DF6ABA4503; Thu, 12 May 2005 17:57:12 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 12 May 2005 17:55:59 -0400 X-OfflineIMAP-x76355784-70696d656e7473656e64-494e424f582e4f7574626f78: 1115935027-0688427163805-v4.0.8 From: Aron Griffis To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] get_number_of_jobs Message-ID: <20050512215559.GE27229@kaf.zko.hp.com> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org References: <564d96fb05051211408807e9b@mail.gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="RhUH2Ysw6aD5utA4" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <564d96fb05051211408807e9b@mail.gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-Archives-Salt: 2e3bb048-cd56-43c5-8bd9-749818b23536 X-Archives-Hash: 734eb6cd39944b45821daff349fe822d --RhUH2Ysw6aD5utA4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Rafael Esp=C3=ADndola 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 -- Aron Griffis Gentoo Linux Developer --RhUH2Ysw6aD5utA4 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFCg9DvJrHF4yAQTrARAnZcAKCtKFKwF6O7TYfO2AshOz7pWQ7fvACgrbed 0v/caZIVpuPdxx0prIb/ELo= =Q9Sg -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --RhUH2Ysw6aD5utA4-- -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list