On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 11:43:08AM -0400, Benjamin Reed wrote:
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> On 5/2/11 10:09 AM, Jack Howarth wrote:
> > make it an opt out
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> The problem with making it an opt out is that there are plenty of
> packages that do not support parallel build, and the first rule is Don't
> Break Existing (Working) Stuff.
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> Enabling it by default that means that a bunch of maintainers who
> haven't heard anything about working packages for years will suddenly
> get reports of random failing. Not really a good thing IMHO, especially
> since parallel-make issues are generally non-obvious and difficult to debug.
Benjamin,
I think you misunderstood my request. I am not asking that...
UseMaxBuildJobs: true
be default on. Rather I am asking that fink extends its current behavior
for new installations of defaulting to adding an entry for
UseMaxBuildJobs=N
in fink.conf when not present in existing installations. This in no way would
cause all packages to use UseMaxBuildJobs but rather only insure that those
that do currently use UseMaxBuildJobs are given access to the appropriate
number of jobs. Currently, the vast majority of users with existing
installations
are unlikey to have UseMaxBuildJobs in fink.conf and we shouldn't make them
dive into the documentation for that feature to work on packages that currently
are coded to use it.
Jack
ps As I mentioned earlier, if a user doesn't want UseMaxBuildJobs to be used
in packages at all, they are free to set UseMaxBuildJob=1 in fink.conf and
fink should respect that and never attempt to change it.
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