Hi,

Il 18/11/18 21:47, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz ha scritto:
> Currently, the debian/rules file of the boost1.67 package contains the
> following code in the override_dh_auto_build target:
> 
> ifneq (,$(filter nodoc,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS)))
>         mkdir -p doc
> else
>         $(JAM_DOC) --build-dir=build-doc doc
> endif
> 
> This means that the building of the documentation is toggled through the
> status "nodoc" build flag. This means, however, that the documentation is
> always built even when it is not used for the doc package which is only
> built when sbuild is called with "--arch-all" to build both the arch:any
> and arch:all targets. This means, the buildds are wasting CPU time for
> generating documentation which is later just thrown away since the doc
> package is not being created.

Thanks for the report of the patch, that is very helpful and I wanted to
do somthing like this (this problem is actually causing some
intermittent FTBFS on some arcitectures). I will review and upload ASAP.

Giovanni.
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Giovanni Mascellani <g.mascell...@gmail.com>
Postdoc researcher - Université Libre de Bruxelles

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