Re: [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? (was: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS)

2012-09-04 Thread Walter Dnes
On Sat, Sep 01, 2012 at 05:20:02PM -0700, Brian Harring wrote This approach is fine imo, although I'd *potentially* look at adding a magic $PROC_COUNT var that is the # of cpu threads on the system; either that or defaulting jobs to it. I rather dislike requiring users to go jam a 2/4/8

Re: [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? (was: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS)

2012-09-01 Thread Brian Harring
On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:12:44AM -0400, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:45:21 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:21:15 +0200 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: Coming back to this old topic [1]. Is there still consensus

Re: [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? (was: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS)

2012-09-01 Thread Michael Mol
On Sat, Sep 1, 2012 at 8:20 PM, Brian Harring ferri...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 31, 2012 at 11:12:44AM -0400, Alexis Ballier wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:45:21 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:21:15 +0200 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org

[gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? (was: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS)

2012-08-31 Thread Ulrich Mueller
On Thu, 4 Dec 2008, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò 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

Re: [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? (was: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS)

2012-08-31 Thread Ciaran McCreesh
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:21:15 +0200 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: Coming back to this old topic [1]. Is there still consensus that we should have such an EJOBS variable? (It shouldn't be called JOBS because this name is too generic, see the old discussion.) Then we could add it to EAPI

Re: [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? (was: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS)

2012-08-31 Thread Alexis Ballier
On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 15:45:21 +0100 Ciaran McCreesh ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:21:15 +0200 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: Coming back to this old topic [1]. Is there still consensus that we should have such an EJOBS variable? (It shouldn't be called

Re: [gentoo-dev] EJOBS variable for EAPI 5? (was: [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS)

2012-08-31 Thread Alexandre Rostovtsev
On Fri, 2012-08-31 at 15:45 +0100, Ciaran McCreesh wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2012 10:21:15 +0200 Ulrich Mueller u...@gentoo.org wrote: Coming back to this old topic [1]. Is there still consensus that we should have such an EJOBS variable? (It shouldn't be called JOBS because this name is too