On Wednesday, May 15, 2002, at 11:50 PM, Ben Hines wrote:
> As a test I added: > -j `hostinfo | grep processors | tail -n1 | sed -e > 's/^.*,[[:space:]]\([[:digit:]]*\)[[:space:]]processors.*$/\1/'` > > just after the "make" command in the "glib2" package and "gnome-core" > package (i had to add the standard compilescript to gnome-core) > > > Personally, I websurf while building my packages, but if you don't care about system responsiveness, you can spawn unlimited make jobs (make -j) and use the "-l" flag to limit spawning to a specific system load. The "-j" flag is not specific to the number of CPUs available to a system-- "make -j2" can be useful on uniprocessor systems.. Be aware that parallel make jobs have been known, in some instances, to produce race conditions. Jeremy _______________________________________________________________ Have big pipes? SourceForge.net is looking for download mirrors. We supply the hardware. You get the recognition. Email Us: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
