Update of /cvsroot/fink/fink
In directory sfp-cvsdas-3.v30.ch3.sourceforge.com:/tmp/cvs-serv7060
Modified Files:
ChangeLog fink.conf.5.in
Log Message:
New MaxBuildJobs option and minor cleanup.
Index: fink.conf.5.in
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RCS file: /cvsroot/fink/fink/fink.conf.5.in,v
retrieving revision 1.45
retrieving revision 1.46
diff -u -d -r1.45 -r1.46
--- fink.conf.5.in 17 Mar 2009 05:43:48 -0000 1.45
+++ fink.conf.5.in 24 Nov 2009 19:39:26 -0000 1.46
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
.\"
.\"
.Sh REQUIRED SETTINGS
-Some of the settings in the fink.conf are mandatory. Without them Fink cannot
to
+Some of the settings in fink.conf are mandatory. Without them Fink cannot
function properly. The following settings belong to this category.
.Bl -tag -width flag
.It Cm Basepath: Ar path
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@
.Pp
The order of trees is meaningful, as packages from later trees may override
packages from earlier ones.
-.It Cm Distribution: Ar 10.3, 10.4 or 10.5
-Fink needs to know which version of Mac OS X you are running. Mac OS X 10.0
and earlier are not supported, and 10.1 and 10.2 are no longer supported by
this version of fink. This field is set by running the
+.It Cm Distribution: Ar 10.4, 10.5 or 10.6
+Fink needs to know which version of Mac OS X you are running. Mac OS X 10.0
and earlier are not supported, and versions from 10.1 to 10.3 are no longer
supported by this version of fink. This field is set by running the
.Cm @PREFIX@/lib/fink/postinstall.pl
script. You should not need to alter this value manually.
.It Cm FetchAltDir: Ar path
@@ -114,8 +114,8 @@
.Bl -tag -width flag -offset indent -compact
.It 0 - Quiet (don't show download stats)
.It 1 - Low (don't show tarballs being expanded)
-.It 2 - Medium (shows almost everything)
-.It 3 - High (shows everything)
+.It 2 - Medium (show almost everything)
+.It 3 - High (show everything)
.El
The default value is 1.
.It Cm SkipPrompts: Ar a comma-delimited list
@@ -153,14 +153,14 @@
.Pa @PREFIX@/src
on Panther and earlier, and
.Pa @PREFIX@/src/fink.build
-on Tiger. If you want them to be somewhere else, specify the path here.
+on OS 10.4 and later versions. If you want them to be somewhere else, specify
the path here.
See the descriptions of the
.Cm KeepRootDir
and
.Cm KeepBuildDir
fields later in this document for more information about these temporary
directories.
.Pp
-On Tiger, it is recommended that the Buildpath end with .noindex or .build.
+On Tiger and later versions, it is recommended that the Buildpath end with
.noindex or .build.
Otherwise, Spotlight will attempt to index the temporary files in the
Buildpath, slowing down builds.
.It Cm Bzip2Path: Ar the path to your bzip2 (or compatible) binary
@@ -168,6 +168,13 @@
tool. This allows you to specify an alternate location to your bzip2
executable,
pass optional command-line options, or use a drop-in replacement like pbzip2
for
decompressing .bz2 archives.
+.It Cm MaxBuildJobs: Ar positive integer
+For packages with parallel build jobs enabled, the MaxBuildJobs option
+specifies how many concurrent build jobs should be spawned by Fink, which
+should render builds faster on multi-CPU, multi-core systems (technically
+speaking, Fink uses the value of this option in MAKEFLAGS=-j). Running
+.Cm fink configure
+will tell you how many active CPUs/cores are available on your system.
.El
.\"
.\"
Index: ChangeLog
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RCS file: /cvsroot/fink/fink/ChangeLog,v
retrieving revision 1.520
retrieving revision 1.521
diff -u -d -r1.520 -r1.521
--- ChangeLog 18 Sep 2009 19:30:46 -0000 1.520
+++ ChangeLog 24 Nov 2009 19:39:26 -0000 1.521
@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-2009-09-18 Augusto Devegili <moni...@users.sourceforge.net>
+2009-09-24 Augusto Devegili <moni...@users.sourceforge.net>
+
+ * fink.conf.5.in: New MaxBuildJobs option and minor cleanup
+
+2009-09-18 Augusto Devegili <moni...@users.sourceforge.net>
* fink.8.in: fink list -m,-s do not accept regular expressions
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