Re: [OctDev] Improving pkg.m

[Claudio F. <kla...@gm...>]

On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 6:29 PM, Paul Dreik <sl...@pa...> wrote:
>> 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?

Well, for openSUSE, we build all packages at once, and it takes a very
long time, like an hour and a half, for about 80 packages. That's an
average build time of a minute per package, big enough to make a
difference with parallel compilation.

I actually haven't tried though, convincing pkg.m to add extra flags
wasn't documented and seemed left out. Packaging would benefit from
being able to send config and make-time flags, besides the parallel
compilation aspect. Things like CFLAGS, for instance.