Re: [gentoo-dev] get_number_of_jobs

2005-05-13 Thread Daniel Goller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Frysinger wrote: | On Thursday 12 May 2005 02:40 pm, Rafael Espíndola wrote: | |>Why does get_number_of_jobs | | | it's an old hack that should be punted ... it's only used by glibc/gcc now, i | just havent gotten around to removing it will be grea

Re: [gentoo-dev] get_number_of_jobs

2005-05-12 Thread Aron Griffis
Rafael EspÃndola wrote:[Thu May 12 2005, 02:40:46PM EDT] > Why does get_number_of_jobs reduces the number of parallel jobs to "to > ensure successful merge"? In my humble opinion if a package fails to > compile with a large -j then the ebuild should know the limit and > reduce it. Nope, if

Re: [gentoo-dev] get_number_of_jobs

2005-05-12 Thread Mike Frysinger
On Thursday 12 May 2005 02:40 pm, Rafael Espíndola wrote: > Why does get_number_of_jobs it's an old hack that should be punted ... it's only used by glibc/gcc now, i just havent gotten around to removing it there's some parallel build issues in glibc, i just havent gotten up the guts to track i

[gentoo-dev] get_number_of_jobs

2005-05-12 Thread Rafael Espíndola
Why does get_number_of_jobs reduces the number of parallel jobs to "to ensure successful merge"? In my humble opinion if a package fails to compile with a large -j then the ebuild should know the limit and reduce it. An example of the problem: My machine has one processor but there are many icecc