[blfs-dev] "with parallelism=4"
The more I edit, the more the phrase "with parallelism=4" grates. First, I don't really think it is good English or good American. In the days when everything was CMMI it could correctly be parsed as "when using make -j4" (assuming people weren't silly enough to do that on a machine with <4 cores). But nowadays, ninja on a 4-core CPU will default to 6 jobs, although most packages can be forced to used a specified number with the ninja patch from LFS (qtwebengine is an exception, there I take cores offline on my laptop). But the bigger problem is packages using rust - if you have 4 or more cores online they schedule N+2 jobs. Actually, that in itself is enough to deter me from getting a bigger machine with multiple drives and trying to build systems in parallel, but not the problem here. I would prefer to change text like this to either "on a 4-core machine" (anything using ninja or rust, including librsvg and qtwebengine) or "using make -j4 on a machine with at least 4 cores" (anything using make where ninja and rust are not involved). And the second of those alternatives is longer than I'd like, but I'm sure someone is going to complain that when they used make -j4 on an old 2-core machine the SBU was somewhat larger. Alternatively, perhaps this is just the early onset of cabin fever, and I'm not even in lockdown at the moment ;-) ĸen -- When alle is ſayed and all is done, ye must chooſe your faces wisely, for soon enouff ye will be playing with fyre." The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Prophecy 5004 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-dev] [was:Archive Seamonkey] libreoffice
On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 10:32:43PM +0800, Xi Ruoyao via blfs-dev wrote: > On 2020-03-16 02:50 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 02:19:03AM +0100, Uwe Düffert via blfs-dev wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > On Sun, 15 Mar 2020, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > > > [...] after I've worked out why I cannot get > > > > libreoffice to build ;-) > > > What's the problem? libreoffice-6.4.2.2 built flawlessly for me with the > > > sed > > > I needed to get libreoffice-6.4.2.1 to build - which I posted March 4th!? > > > > > > Uwe > > > > Hi Uwe, > > > > I know you posted those fixes for later versions, but I've been > > trying not to change too much in this experimental build (5.6-rc5 > > headers from last week, JS68 tried but removed and reverted to JS60 > > because polkit didn't like it (sysv, not systemd), rustc-1.39.0 and > > primarily librsvg-1.39.0. > > JS68 can be installed together with JS60. GNOME 3.36 requires JS68 so we'll > add > it into the book anyway. For polkit I raised a MR: > > https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/merge_requests/48 I don't use gnome, I was just wondering if JS68 would be a step towards eventually getting rid of python2. And since this was before I'd completed Xorg it seemed simpler to just rip 68 out and reinstate 60 in my build. However, my impression from watching 'top' was that 68 had maybe used 'python', i.e. python2. Whatever, it's good to know about your merge request. ĸen -- When alle is ſayed and all is done, ye must chooſe your faces wisely, for soon enouff ye will be playing with fyre." The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Prophecy 5004 -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [blfs-dev] [was:Archive Seamonkey] libreoffice
On 2020-03-16 02:50 +, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > On Mon, Mar 16, 2020 at 02:19:03AM +0100, Uwe Düffert via blfs-dev wrote: > > Hi, > > > > On Sun, 15 Mar 2020, Ken Moffat via blfs-dev wrote: > > > > > [...] after I've worked out why I cannot get > > > libreoffice to build ;-) > > What's the problem? libreoffice-6.4.2.2 built flawlessly for me with the sed > > I needed to get libreoffice-6.4.2.1 to build - which I posted March 4th!? > > > > Uwe > > Hi Uwe, > > I know you posted those fixes for later versions, but I've been > trying not to change too much in this experimental build (5.6-rc5 > headers from last week, JS68 tried but removed and reverted to JS60 > because polkit didn't like it (sysv, not systemd), rustc-1.39.0 and > primarily librsvg-1.39.0. JS68 can be installed together with JS60. GNOME 3.36 requires JS68 so we'll add it into the book anyway. For polkit I raised a MR: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/polkit/polkit/-/merge_requests/48 -- Xi Ruoyao School of Aerospace Science and Technology, Xidian University -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
