Debian Bug report logs - #413050
NJOBS hack from glibc package for parallel builds (make -j xx)

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: NJOBS hack from glibc package for parallel builds (make -j xx)

Date: Thu, 01 Mar 2007 22:17:07 +0100

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Package: dh-make
Version: 0.42
Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Please consider this patch, based on code from glibc package, to enable
parallel builds.

Note: I really think this belongs in dpkg-dev and/or cdbs in the long term,
but since assuming all builds can be parallelised is impossible at the
moment, it might be a good idea to start doing it in dh-make for now.

Maybe for lenny we can have dpkg-dev export MAKE and this way even debian/rules
itself would benefit from this.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 4.0
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.18-3-amd64
Locale: LANG=ca_AD.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=ca_AD.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)

Versions of packages dh-make depends on:
ii  debhelper                     5.0.42     helper programs for debian/rules
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.13.25    package building tools for Debian
ii  make                          3.81-3     The GNU version of the "make" util
ii  perl                          5.8.8-7    Larry Wall's Practical Extraction 

dh-make recommends no packages.

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Message #10 received at 413050-done@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Craig Small <csmall@debian.org>

To: 413050-done@bugs.debian.org, Robert Millan <rmh@aybabtu.com>

Subject: Closing Debian Bug 413050

Date: Mon, 8 Mar 2010 13:03:51 +1100

Hello,
  I'm closing your bug regarding adding some lines to the debian/rules
file for parallel builds. It's not because I think parallel builds are
bad, but to me debian/rules is not the place for this to be changed.

Something in dpkg-dev should enable parallel builds, at most the rules
file should enable or disable this feature but not create it.

 - Craig
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