Package: debhelper Version: 7.9.1 Severity: important -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1
There are currently several issues with how debhelper handles parallel builds. (1) It is impossible to set DH_OPTIONS=--parallel as environment variable or at the top of debian/rules. All debhelper commands return an error with this. Why? Do we really need to write `--parallel' everywere in a debian/rules file? I have several packages using dh 7 overriding some commands. What's the sense of being forced to add this option to every dh command? (2) This is really annoying: Using `MAKEFLAGS=-j2 debuild' on e.g. this rules file, does still set `make -j1': %: dh --with quilt --parallel $@ JFTR: debuild -j2 works. When I explicitly set --parallel, then I expect, that you don't touch my given MAKEFLAGS. Can you please either fix that or rethink the design of debhelper? You make it unneccessary hard to enable parallel builds. Or did I miss something obvious, that isn't part of the documentation and the manual page? Regards, Daniel - -- System Information: Debian Release: squeeze/sid APT prefers unstable APT policy: (850, 'unstable'), (700, 'testing'), (560, 'stable'), (110, 'experimental') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages debhelper depends on: ii binutils 2.20.1-11 The GNU assembler, linker and bina ii dpkg-dev 1.15.7.2 Debian package development tools ii file 5.04-2 Determines file type using "magic" ii html2text 1.3.2a-15 advanced HTML to text converter ii man-db 2.5.7-3 on-line manual pager ii perl 5.10.1-13 Larry Wall's Practical Extraction ii perl-base 5.10.1-13 minimal Perl system ii po-debconf 1.0.16 tool for managing templates file t debhelper recommends no packages. Versions of packages debhelper suggests: ii dh-make 0.55 tool that converts source archives - -- no debconf information -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkwb2dkACgkQm0bx+wiPa4xKagCgogdS7fQGJfrN7CuQ3TtI39Qo ygMAn1lFR7jouXkFIhfpMVUFnajh7Fso =YO38 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org