On Thu, Feb 14, 2019 at 07:12:12PM -0600, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> On 2/14/19 6:39 PM, Douglas R. Reno wrote:
> >
> > On 2/14/19 6:38 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> > > In r11506, amongst the several upgrades including glibc was an
> > > upgrade to ninja-1.9.0. As part of that, the LFS-specific patch to
> > > restrict the number of jobs was discarded.
> > >
> > > I don't recall seeing this mentioned, so I wonder why ? I've
> > > certainly mentioned it on the qtwebengine page, and it makes
> > > measuring for 4 cores a lot easier on a machine with more.
> > >
> > > ĸen
> >
> > I was about to ask this myself - what happened with this?
> >
> > For some of my systems, this will lead to fatal consequences if I don't
> > find a way to *safely* turn off CPU cores without the risk of killing
> > the system in the process. This patch made it a lot easier.
>
> It's built in now.
>
>
> $ ninja --version
> 1.9.0
> $ ninja --help
> usage: ninja [options] [targets...]
>
> if targets are unspecified, builds the 'default' target (see manual).
>
> options:
> --version print ninja version ("1.9.0")
> -v, --verbose show all command lines while building
>
> -C DIR change to DIR before doing anything else
> -f FILE specify input build file [default=build.ninja]
>
> -j N run N jobs in parallel (0 means infinity) [default=6 on this
> system]
> -k N keep going until N jobs fail (0 means infinity) [default=1]
> -l N do not start new jobs if the load average is greater than N
> -n dry run (don't run commands but act like they succeeded)
>
> -d MODE enable debugging (use '-d list' to list modes)
> -t TOOL run a subtool (use '-t list' to list subtools)
> terminates toplevel options; further flags are passed to the tool
> -w FLAG adjust warnings (use '-w list' to list warnings)
>
> -- Bruce
Thanks. Not sure why I sent this to -support, I was sure I'd typed
lfs-dev.
ĸen
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