On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 11:18 AM, nicolas vigier <bo...@mars-attacks.org> wrote: > On Tue, 05 Feb 2013, Sander Lepik wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> 05.02.2013 13:04, Pascal Terjan kirjutas: >> > On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 9:03 AM, Anne Nicolas <enna...@gmail.com> >> > wrote: >> >> Hi there >> >> >> > I am planning to try building failing packages with -j4 instead of >> > -j12 to get a list of the ones which are "really" broken but I >> > don't know how to handle the discussion on which ones to drop and >> > which ones really need to be fixed >> >> Can't we have some macro for that in the build system. %make_j4 ? So >> we could fix them and switch the build system's %make to -j12 by >> default in the future? > > I'm not sure it's useful to have a %make_j4 macro. It's already possible > to do "make -j4" without using a macro. >
And they should rather get fixed as it's only by chance if they work with -j4 now, any change in the Makefile may make them only work with -j3 or -j5...