Re: [Devil-linux-develop] default options suggestions

[Andrzej O. <an...@ma...>]

Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> it's mostly the Makefiles of the various packages which don't like to  
> be compiled with -jX
> 
> We introduced a new parameter in DL1.3 CONFIG_PARALLEL_JOBS
> I have this set to 4 on my dual core box, which make it run quite nicely.
> It basically let's the DL build system run X scripts in parallel,  
> which seems to work better.
> Every once in a while I have a script fail, I just restart it and keep going.
> 
> Oh and in order to use this functionality you have to use a new  
> makefile parameter:
> make mrproper unpack prepare     <- as always
> make makefile        <- instead of "build install iso"

Now all is clear for me. So I try it now. I will set -j1 , JOBS to 8 and run 
full process again this night. Tomorow I will check total time and will 
report. It is thinkable, some compilation phases are dependent and must be 
done one aftter one... but this isn't elegant

Thanks, Heiko

Andrzej Odyniec