On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:08:52PM +0100, Lucas Nussbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Bug #209008 proposed to have a common interface to tell packages to do
> parallel building (make -j).
> 
> Not having this is a PITA for me, since I do rebuilds of the whole
> Debian archive on clusters of machines, and my current total build time
> is only dependant of the time taken to build the largest packages (see
> slides 25-28 of [1] for details).
> 
> For some reason, the discussion that happened back in 2003 isn't logged
> on the BTS, but can be read in [2]. Everyone seemed to agree on the
> proposal, but it was discussed whether this should be implemented as
> DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS="parallel=n" or DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS_PARALLEL=n.

why not DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS=noparallel, like noopt ?

Mike



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