Re: [gentoo-dev] Parallizing ebuilds - 'trivial' ebuilds

[Philippe Trottier]

Lisa Seelye wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 00:18 +0000, Ferris McCormick wrote:
>
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>>On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, Lisa Seelye wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2006-01-11 at 14:51 -0800, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
>>>
>>>>I've been cleaning up media-fonts/ to work with modular-X, and I see a
>>>>lot of ebuilds with stuff like this:
>>>>    for font in *.bdf; do
>>>>        /usr/X11R6/bin/bdftopcf ${font} > `basename $font .bdf`.pcf
>>>>    done
>>>>    gzip *.pcf
>>>>
>>>>For having 100 files in *bdf, this is so serial it's painful.
>>>
>>>And here I was hoping Distcc would get some usage. :(
>>>
>>
>>Distcc gets lots of usage with modular X.  But for the fonts? :)
>
> Time for distfont? ;)

Make this distributed tool for tar zip bzip2 and gzip and I'm in, I don't think 
it would be useful with anything else than Gigabit Ethernet.

We might want to have in the make.conf 2 separate variables, one of them saying 
how many threads can be run on the machine, then How many threads/process across 
a cluster.

For example, my Dual Xeon EM64T file server can do make -j4  locally, like in 
make install, make docs etc etc, But for compiling I can use -j20, really not 
useful over -j8 anyway. But the point is, it would be usefully to separate the 
load distribution on the local machine and cluster nodes.

Philippe Trottier
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