31 Dec
2013
31 Dec
'13
6:39 p.m.
Am 31.12.2013 07:51, schrieb Sébastien Leblanc:
I would advise against doing that, considering that there are at least a handful of packages (can't name them) that have broken or otherwise malfunctioning Makefiles when run in parallel. The package maintainers _should_ be aware of those issues, and would accordingly add 'options="!makeflags"' to their PKGBUILD, but not everyone has a multiple core computer,
Really? Who?
nor did everyone test the functionality (there could be cases where -j4 runs fine, but -j8 crashes, or other weird race conditions).
You are suggesting not changing to a sane default because some packages (especially in the AUR) have crappy maintainers. That's hardly a reason for anything.