Hi ludo, I've seen your post (autoconf mailinglist) asking about how to scale configure scripts. I don't think there is an easy way. :( Maybe using cmake could be an option.
More interesting: Have you also numbers about whether some of those builds failed due to -jX ? That was one of the main arguments against a feature like enableParallelBuilding in the past (?). And discussion stopped at exactly this point. I've seen an internal make failure for some packages ocassionally. Eg ruby19: INTERNAL: Exiting with 6 jobserver tokens available; should be 4! > The build phase itself scales better, but for half of the packages the > speedup is lower than 4. Many projects (eg HaXe or terraview) just don't care enough about it for whatever reason. I've had another idea in mind: Building up a database listing the resources a build takes (both IO and CPU). Then it would be possible to calculate an estimated wait time for rebuilds - or maybe it would be possible to optimize the order of builds or such. I don't care enough to work on it right now. Marc Weber _______________________________________________ nix-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.cs.uu.nl/mailman/listinfo/nix-dev
