[Mageia-dev] Packager's meeting

Pascal Terjan pterjan at gmail.com
Tue Feb 5 12:48:38 CET 2013


On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:18 AM, nicolas vigier <boklm at mars-attacks.org> wrote:
> On Tue, 05 Feb 2013, Sander Lepik wrote:
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>> 05.02.2013 13:04, Pascal Terjan kirjutas:
>> > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Anne Nicolas <ennael1 at gmail.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >> Hi there
>> >>
>> > I am planning to try building failing packages with -j4 instead of
>> > -j12 to get a list of the ones which are "really" broken but I
>> > don't know how to handle the discussion on which ones to drop and
>> > which ones really need to be fixed
>>
>> Can't we have some macro for that in the build system. %make_j4 ? So
>> we could fix them and switch the build system's %make to -j12 by
>> default in the future?
>
> I'm not sure it's useful to have a %make_j4 macro. It's already possible
> to do "make -j4" without using a macro.
>

And they should rather get fixed as it's only by chance if they work
with -j4 now, any change in the Makefile may make them only work with
-j3 or -j5...


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