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Rafael EspĂndola wrote: [Thu May 12 2005, 02:40:46PM EDT] |
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> Why does get_number_of_jobs reduces the number of parallel jobs to "to |
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> ensure successful merge"? In my humble opinion if a package fails to |
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> compile with a large -j then the ebuild should know the limit and |
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> reduce it. |
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Nope, if a package doesn't build with large -j then the ebuild should |
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force -j1. Either a package is parallel build clean or it isn't. You |
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can't make the problem go away by using an intermediate value for -j; |
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it might work for you but it won't for somebody else. |
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Regards, |
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Aron |
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Aron Griffis |
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Gentoo Linux Developer |