Re: [OctDev] Improving pkg.m

[Juan P. C. <car...@if...>]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 12:33 AM, Stephen Montgomery-Smith
<st...@mi...> wrote:
> On 09/23/2012 05:20 PM, Juan Pablo Carbajal wrote:
>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 11:29 PM, Paul Dreik <sl...@pa...> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> 2012-09-23 22:33, Claudio Freire skrev:
>>>> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 5:06 PM, c. <car...@gm...> wrote:
>>>>> I'm in.
>>>>>
>>>>> We should have the description of the required improvements at
>>>>>
>>>>> http://wiki.octave.org/Projects#Packaging
>>>>>
>>>>> a bit more specific before the sprint.
>>>>
>>>> I just added:
>>>>   make pkg able to supply extra configure and make flags, useful for
>>>> distributions, including -j for make
>>> Just curios, are there any octave packages that benefit from parallel
>>> compilation?
>>> paul
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>> I do not understand the question and it seem off-topic. Can you open
>> another thread to discuss that?
>
> The question made sense to me, and wasn't off topic.  One person said it
> would be nice if "-j" could be passed to make via pkg.m.  Another person
> asked if there would be any advantage to doing this (since "-j" causes
> make to do parallel builds).  Filling in the blanks, I assume he meant
> that most packages build so fast that passing "-j" would be of very
> little benefit.
>
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oh! sorry then for my miss interpretation. Being able to pass "-j" to
pkg would be perfect!

@Paul: Sorry! If that was your question. Definitely, control for
example would compile much faster if we can use multiple
processors/cores.

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