-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Jack Howarth wrote: > Considering that Apple will likely be announcing dual quad core > systems in the near future, I wonder if fink should adopt some > policy on packaging that utilizes the extra cores. Specifically > if we should have two changes. One would be a setting in fink.conf > which would either allow fink to use all available cores or > limit it to a single core. The second would be to have those > packages which can be properly build with 'make -j numprocs' > to do so (with numprocs being set by fink to either the number > of cores on the system or to one depending upon the fink.conf > setting). Fink could also have an option to override the setting > in fink.conf for a particular build (ie change the advertised > number of cores for fink to use).
Yeah, we've discussed it before but no one's gotten around to coding it. :) It does make sense to have packages "opt in" to multi-core building. Right now, people who use the change mentioned on the wiki to allow MAKEFLAGS can have package randomly fail because the packager doesn't know to set it. - -- Benjamin Reed a.k.a. Ranger Rick Fink, KDE, and Mac OS X development http://www.racoonfink.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFF4cC4Uu+jZtP2Zf4RAhcpAJ9en0K7KueDXFUT4TfczPK/Gq/OQwCfQhII fpRiRh5AHp+fczIHmX1bheY= =wDdM -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Fink-devel mailing list Fink-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fink-devel
