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From: Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Cc: Christian Faulhammer <opfer@g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-office/magicpoint: ChangeLog magicpoint-1.12a.ebuild
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:31:26
Message-Id: 200709241618.09366.vapier@gentoo.org
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [gentoo-commits] gentoo-x86 commit in app-office/magicpoint: ChangeLog magicpoint-1.12a.ebuild by Christian Faulhammer
1 On Monday 24 September 2007, Christian Faulhammer wrote:
2 > Donnie Berkholz <dberkholz@g.o>:
3 > > On 09:58 Mon 24 Sep , Christian Faulhammer (opfer) wrote:
4 > > > opfer 07/09/24 09:58:29
5 > > >
6 > > > Modified: ChangeLog
7 > > > Added: magicpoint-1.12a.ebuild
8 > > > Log:
9 > > > version bump, a lot of bugfixes; on Gentoo side we have better
10 > > > Emacs support; in total fixing bugs 150312, 83313 and 186754
11 > > > (Portage version: 2.1.3.9)
12 > > >
13 > > > # no parallel make possible!
14 > > > make -j1 Makefiles || die "emake failed"
15 > > > make clean || die "emake clean failed"
16 > > > make BINDIR=/usr/bin LIBDIR=/etc/X11 || die "emake failed"
17 >
18 > [...]
19 >
20 > > > make \
21 >
22 > [...]
23 >
24 > > > make \
25 >
26 > [...]
27 >
28 > > Why not emake for all of these?
29 >
30 > Because it fails, magicpoint's build system is really old and weird.
31 > The comment above should state that, but the leftover -j1 I tried would
32 > confuse the reader. Plus the stupid die comments.
33
34 most people associate "emake" with "run in parallel" when in reality, that is
35 merely one of the things it provides
36
37 if something doesnt work in parallel, you use `emake -j1` ... using `make`
38 generally doesnt make sense anywhere
39 -mike

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