On Fri, Jul 09, 2010 at 05:38:51PM -0500, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > I once suggested it would be a good idea to replace the "use_parallel_build" > yes/no switch with a more fine-grained switch (say "parallel_jobs") where you > could specify the maximum number of parallel jobs. "parallel_jobs 1" would > then be the equivalent of today's "use_parallel_build no", "parallel_jobs 0" > could be the equivalent of today's "use_parallel_build yes" (mirrors the way > "buildmakejobs" works in macports.conf today), and for example "parallel_jobs > 2" could be used for ports that support 2 parallel jobs but not more. But for > now we don't have this, so software must either support any arbitrary number > of parallel jobs, or not be run in parallel at all.
Are there actually programs that will build with 2 parallel jobs but fail with more? (for arbitrary values of 2, of course) -- Dan R. K. Ports MIT CSAIL http://drkp.net/ _______________________________________________ macports-dev mailing list [email protected] http://lists.macosforge.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/macports-dev
