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From: flameeyes@gmail.com (Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?=)
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS
Date: Thu, 04 Dec 2008 20:46:35
Message-Id: m2skp34qjx.fsf@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS by "Tiziano Müller"
1 Tiziano Müller <dev-zero@g.o> writes:
2
3 > What do you do for other build systems which also decide on load-basis
4 > how many jobs to run? Parse again?
5 > In that case I'd like to see a more abstract definition of "how many
6 > jobs to run in parallel" which gets translated to the correct
7 > make-options for emake and which is query'able either via a variable or
8 > a function (something like JOBS="load=0.7||max=3" maybe?).
9
10 If you can come up with a good enough syntax.
11
12 --
13 Diego "Flameeyes" Pettenò
14 http://blog.flameeyes.eu/