Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-05 Thread Peter Volkov
В Птн, 05/12/2008 в 08:23 +0100, Rémi Cardona пишет: Le 05/12/2008 05:33, Joe Peterson a écrit : How about PORTAGE_JOBS to go along with PORTAGE_OVERLAY, PORTAGE_NICENESS, etc. While this part of the thread has a lot of bikeshedding potential, Joe's name sounds more consistent with what

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-05 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Peter Volkov [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: This variable will be used in eclasses so it's better to avoid portage in it's name, since not only portage will work with it. GENTOO_JOBS is really something new in sense of consistency. EJOBS looks most terse for me but I'll be ok with any name...

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Tiziano Müller
Diego 'Flameeyes' =?utf-8?Q?Petten=C3=B2?= wrote: Since not all the buildsystem we support use make for the actual build, and they don't necessarily support make-like options (-jX -s and so on), it would be nice to be able to express a JOBS variable that could be used for parallel build with

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Tiziano Müller [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What do you do for other build systems which also decide on load-basis how many jobs to run? Parse again? In that case I'd like to see a more abstract definition of how many jobs to run in parallel which gets translated to the correct make-options for

[gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks Good To Me, but I would prefix the JOBS variable with some sort of namespace (EJOBS, GENTOO_JOBS, etc.) to avoid conflicts with other systems that may use JOBS internally already (seems vaguely likely). Good point, GENTOO_JOBS sounds good to me. --

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Joe Peterson
Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: Alec Warner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Looks Good To Me, but I would prefix the JOBS variable with some sort of namespace (EJOBS, GENTOO_JOBS, etc.) to avoid conflicts with other systems that may use JOBS internally already (seems vaguely likely). Good

Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Rémi Cardona
Le 05/12/2008 05:33, Joe Peterson a écrit : How about PORTAGE_JOBS to go along with PORTAGE_OVERLAY, PORTAGE_NICENESS, etc. While this part of the thread has a lot of bikeshedding potential, Joe's name sounds more consistent with what we already have. Naming issues appart, it's a good idea.