mock 0.8.9 for EPEL-5
Manuel Wolfshant
wolfy at nobugconsulting.ro
Wed Nov 21 11:07:47 UTC 2007
José Matos wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 22:00:01 Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>
>> On 11/20/2007 11:54 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
>>
>>> Michael E Brown wrote:
>>>
>>>> There is a head-scratcher. I *thought* that it was rpmbuild's
>>>> responsibility to automatically detect the number of processors in the
>>>> system and add this flag, if necessary.
>>>>
>>> Yes, %{_smp_mflags} gets defined automatically
>>>
>> Could it be that the option is defined automatically in koji (plague?)
>> but not on my box?
>> I had a package not compiling with -j3 and I detected it only after
>> adding the said option to mock config.
>>
>
> Notice that unless you have three processors the flag will have the number of
> processors on your machine. Depending on the package you are building the
> bottleneck is not the cpu but the disc so it is possible to increase the
> value and have better build times.
>
> I do it all the time. :-)
I was not interested in build time but in making sure that the
compilation process actually works. There are cases where bugs prevent
parallel make.
Manuel
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