[Russ Allbery] > @@ -6466,6 +6466,20 @@ > not be stripped from the binary during installation, > so that debugging information may be included in the package. > </item> > + <tag>parallel=n</tag> > + <item> > + This string means that the package should be built using > + up to <tt>n</tt> parallel processes if the package build
As a matter of typography, I think the n should be <em> rather than <tt>. > + Packages built with <tt>make</tt> can often implement > + this by passing the <tt>-jn</tt> option to Here too. <tt>-j</tt><em>n</em> > @@ -6490,6 +6504,10 @@ > ifeq (,$(findstring nostrip,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) > INSTALL_PROGRAM += -s > endif > +ifneq (,$(findstring parallel=,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) > +NUMJOBS = $(patsubst parallel=%,%,$(filter parallel=%,$(DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS))) > +MAKEFLAGS += -j$(NUMJOBS) > +endif > </example> > </p> As I mentioned in another message, this will only work for a whitespace-separated DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS value. Policy unfortunately doesn't specify the delimiter to be used in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS, and I think a lot of people (including myself) use a comma. I proposed a makefile snippet earlier that works around this and also provides a nicer interface for the rest of the makefile. Aside from those issues, here's a +1 vote from a non-developer on your diff. -- Peter Samuelson | org-tld!p12n!peter | http://p12n.org/
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