Hi
Thanks. This is mostly in the spec file debugging phase where saving a
couple on tens of seconds can make a real difference.
Leaving it off by default or letting the package configure/build script
handle it is definitely a good idea ;-)
Cheers
Conrad
On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 22:08, Ralf S. Engelschall wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 07, 2003, Conrad Steenberg wrote:
>
> > Is there a standard flag to use with e.g. 'rpm -ba' to do a parallel
> > compile of a given package?
>
> Those packages which support parallel building in our experience do it
> automatically. Those which do not parallel build currently are this way,
> because they failed in some release engineering process to build this
> way. Nevertheless you can try it again and perhaps it works now with
> the current vendor version.
>
> The magic is in "%{l_mflags -O}". I don't think you can override this
> from the command line. But you can substitue "%{l_make} %{l_mflags}" in
> the .spec file with "%{l_make} %{l_mflags -O}" if you really insist on
> parallel building.
>
> But I would leave it as is, because as I said: all packages initially
> had parallel building enabled and we switched it off in packages which
> failed to build. So if it is off in a package where you would like to
> see it on, the chance is high that is doesn't work anyway.
>
> Ralf S. Engelschall
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