[libvirt-ci PATCH] lcitool: Set make parallelism dynamically

Erik Skultety eskultet at redhat.com
Mon May 11 12:07:33 UTC 2020


On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 02:02:50PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 10:20 +0200, Erik Skultety wrote:
> > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 06:53:12PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote:
> > > +export MAKEFLAGS="-j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)"
> > 
> > By the way, do you happen to know where the _NPROCESSORS_ONLN came from? I mean
> > the only trace of it was the system config constant _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN which
> > the getconf one will be translated to, I was just confused where shorter name
> > came from, since it's not documented in any of the man pages (or it may be, but
> > I don't have that specific man page installed).
> 
> No idea, but it's used quite extensively in our GitLab CI
> configurations and I've verified it also works on FreeBSD...
> 
> If you find the other variant is preferable for whatever reason,
> we can always change it :)

We cant', because getconf doesn't accept it in the system constant form, that's
the puzzling part for me, your patch is the correct approach.

-- 
Erik Skultety




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