On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 08:23:02PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 10:50:36AM -0600, Taral wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 07:07:19PM +0300, Richard Braakman wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 07:48:32AM -0600, Taral wrote: > > > > which is really a system dependent thing. Those builders who want > > > > parallel builds will invoke debian/rules itself with -j 3. I don't > > > > believe it belongs in the rules file itself. > > > > > > That reasoning only works if we reject the proposal in #88029. > > > If that passes, there's no guarantee that debian/rules will accept > > > options at all. > > > > In which case "make -j 3 -f debian/rules" will work as well. > > Um... how? It only works if debian/rules is a makefile, which is > precisely my point.
debian/rules must be a parallel-safe makefile in addition. I know from experience at least that gcc-2.95's rules file is not parallel-safe when building a cross-compiler. ;) And the kernel source is anything but parallel-safe right now. -- Ferret
