On 08/04/2014 09:46 PM, William Harrington wrote: > > On Aug 4, 2014, at 2:30 PM, Armin K. wrote: > >> Shouldn't "This package doesn't support parallel builds." suffice like >> we have in several others? > > There are most likely other pages with this type of issue. > > Make has jobs. If packages use GNU Make they already support jobs. > The whole idea with a Makefile is to have the targets setup properly to > use job control. > > If this package has an issue with job control, the problem is that it > doesn't support parallel builds, > the Makefile was poorly written to use job control. > > Openssl has had this issue for a long time and quite a few other > packages, as well. > > We have to get the terminology correct. > > It's job control, not parallel builds. Parallel builds means package 1 > and package 2 at the same time. > > GNU Make has job control. It creates jobs. It has a job server. > > Refer to the GNU Make man page. > > Sincerely, > > William Harrington
"This package does not support using more than one make job at build time." ... Not everyone is really familiar with this terminology. -- Note: My last name is not Krejzi.
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