On Mon, Sep 06, 2021 at 07:33:17PM +0000, David Cohen via pacman-dev wrote:
Currently PKGBUILD has no way to receive from makepkg if it wants to use parallel jobs during compilation. This patch adds the '-jN' option to makepkg, which will propagate to PKGBUILD 2 variables: JOBS is 0 if options is not used, or N otherwise. JOBS_ARG is an empty string is option is not used, or '-jN' otherwise.
If the PKGBUILD script does not support parallel jobs, this option will have no impact during the compilation.
Hi David. Thank you for your contribution! It appears to me that you can achieve this by doing proper changes here. https://gitlab.archlinux.org/pacman/pacman/-/blob/master/etc/makepkg.conf.in... I wonder if this is rather another way to do it through the CLI, and I wonder if we can evaluate its usefulness on those grounds :) Cheers! -Santiago