Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Alec Warner
On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Since not all the buildsystem we support use make for the actual build, > and they don't necessarily support make-like options (-jX -s and so on), > it would be nice to be able to express a JOBS variable that

Re: [gentoo-dev] [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Luca Barbato
On 4-12-2008 21:29, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò wrote: One has to consider people might be using -l for parallel building too, I'd have it in a separate variable as well, IFF another build system is as nice as make towards parallel build. lu

[gentoo-dev] [RFC] Create a JOBS variable to replace -jX in MAKEOPTS

2008-12-04 Thread Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
Since not all the buildsystem we support use make for the actual build, and they don't necessarily support make-like options (-jX -s and so on), it would be nice to be able to express a JOBS variable that could be used for parallel build with any build systems. Right now there are ebuilds like op