On Jun 22, 2010, at 3:08 PM, Marc Weber wrote: > Excerpts from Jeff Johnson's message of Tue Jun 22 20:54:23 +0200 2010: >> I don't disagree. My suggestion was for "clearly documented source", >> not for "portability".You're still talking about the NIX_BUILD_CORES naming, >> correct? > > You know that this is a "user setting" only now. How would you call it so > that someone like you having read many specs upside down isn't fooled by > the name? >
Yes, I'm just catching up that build-cores is user settable. > If you think that I'm totally missing the point tell me please. > The point is that #cpu's is misleading. It is the "wrong abstraction" because one gets tricked by innate naive comprehensions of what no. of CPU's actually "means". Just parameterize make options directly is what I would do and lose all the baggage. KISS rules. 73 de Jeff _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
