Peter Samuelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > [Lucas Nussbaum] >> - the number of parallel jobs should be specified by the developer >> building the package. There's no way to automatically guess the >> value in a sensible way, since it doesn't depend only on the number >> of CPUs but also on the amount of RAM available. > > Right.
Which also means the value should differ between package. So one can't just put one value into the .${SHELL}rc but it needs to be somewhat specific to the package. My suggestion therefore remains to query a script about the parallelism to use given a few hints (language used, rough memory estimate, ...). The source would pass the hints to the script, the developer building the package sets some boundaries in /etc/<script>rc and/or ~/.<script>rc and the script just returns the parallelism to use. MfG Goswin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]