Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-office/magicpoint: ChangeLog magicpoint-1.12a.ebuild

[Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>]

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On Monday 24 September 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
> Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@gentoo.org>:
> > On 09:58 Mon 24 Sep     , Christian Faulhammer (opfer) wrote:
> > > opfer       07/09/24 09:58:29
> > >
> > >   Modified:             ChangeLog
> > >   Added:                magicpoint-1.12a.ebuild
> > >   Log:
> > >   version bump, a lot of bugfixes; on Gentoo side we have better
> > > Emacs support; in total fixing bugs 150312, 83313 and 186754
> > > (Portage version: 2.1.3.9)
> > >
> > > 	# no parallel make possible!
> > > 	make -j1 Makefiles || die "emake failed"
> > > 	make clean || die "emake clean failed"
> > > 	make BINDIR=/usr/bin LIBDIR=/etc/X11 || die "emake failed"
>
> [...]
>
> > > 	make \
>
> [...]
>
> > > 	make \
>
> [...]
>
> > Why not emake for all of these?
>
>  Because it fails, magicpoint's build system is really old and weird.
> The comment above should state that, but the leftover -j1 I tried would
> confuse the reader.  Plus the stupid die comments.

most people associate "emake" with "run in parallel" when in reality, that is 
merely one of the things it provides

if something doesnt work in parallel, you use `emake -j1` ... using `make` 
generally doesnt make sense anywhere
-mike

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