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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: "Michał Górny" <mgorny@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] sys-libs/ncurses: Remove parallel econf logic
Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2017 01:12:20
Message-Id: 20170321011210.GH24205@vapier
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] [PATCH 2/2] sys-libs/ncurses: Remove parallel econf logic by "Michał Górny"
1 On 20 Mar 2017 20:35, Michał Górny wrote:
2 > Remove the parallel econf logic that adds a lot of complexity for minor
3 > gain. It results in the output from different configure scripts being
4 > mixed in the build log, making it unreadable. It causes econf to be run
5 > in a subshell which is a PMS violation and can cause issues with some of
6 > package manager implementations. Furthermore, the multijob parallel
7 > processes are interleaved with multilib-build logic which is unsupported
8 > and a very bad idea.
9
10 NAK. you still haven't backed up your claims wrt to PMS, and this slows
11 things down significantly.
12 -mike

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