Hi Eli, I am aware of the '/etc/makepkg.conf'. I read the Wiki. That's not what I am talking about. A make command in a PKGBUILD build() did not accept my tweaked $MAKEFLAGS. I had to explicitly give 'make $MAKEFLAGS' to get my options to work. So I added it to the PKGBUILD of my packages. Maybe it works now without it, but it didn't.
About the makedepends - for Pythia, most of the available flags don't even have packages in the Arch universe, so I cannot simply declare them makedepends. The ones that exist are on AUR and I would overstate it if I said they were maintained. So if I add them as makedepends, no one will be able to install my package. I don't think this is the answer. I will see what else can be done. Regards, Konstantin On Thu, Mar 23, 2017 at 10:33 PM, Eli Schwartz <eschwart...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/23/2017 04:32 PM, Konstantin Gizdov wrote: > > You pointed out that "make" already reads "MAKEFLAGS" on its own. Well, > > I only added this, because it didn't for me for some reason. Maybe this > > was a bug in the build scripts and has since been fixed. But when I > > picked up ROOT and the rest of the packages, I had to manually add > > "${MAKEFLAGS}" in order for "make" to accept "-j${nproc}". I will try it > > again. > > `make -j$(nproc)` should be left as a user decision anyway IMHO -- smart > build systems know how to scale up for the number of cores already, and > makepkg.conf *exists* for users to declare things like that. > > Note that the default makepkg.conf has a commented-out MAKEFLAGS > variable... you don't get this automatically. > > > You also point out the "hacky" way of dealing with, what I call, > > optional make dependencies. So the optional dependencies that you > > mention can be uninstalled fine and the packages will continue to work > > (excluding the relevant features, of course). However, if the packages > > are not present at build time, there is no way to enable those features > > in the first place. Since this is AUR and we don't ship binaries, I was > > not sure how better to deal with this. Any ideas? > > That would be "in which case you should simply add them as makedepends." > That way they will be present at build-time and support will be compiled > in, but the user can then uninstall them (e.g. using `makepkg -sr`) > without harm, and they will be notified via optdepends that they might > want to have them installed at runtime as well to actually make use of > that support. > > As a general rule of thumb, Arch policy is that there are no optional > makedepends and we like to compile things with support for everything > possible. > > -- > Eli Schwartz > >