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

["Alec Warner" <antarus@gentoo.org>]

On Thu, Dec 4, 2008 at 12:29 PM, Diego 'Flameeyes' Pettenò
<flameeyes@gmail.com> 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 could be
> used for parallel build with any build systems.
>
> Right now there are ebuilds like openoffice or some scons-based ebuilds
> that parse MAKEOPTS and get out of that the number of jobs from the -j
> option, but this is a) suboptimal b) error-prone.
>
> One has to consider people might be using -l for parallel building too,
> for which reasons I'd be suggesting doing something like this to make
> the change transparent:
>
>  - ebuilds using non-make build systems would use JOBS;
>  - ebuilds using make builds systems would just use emake as usual;
>  - Portage takes care, if JOBS is unset, to parse it out of MAKEOPTS;
>  - if user has set JOBS but not MAKEOPTS this defaults to -j${JOBS};
>  - if user has JOBS and MAKEOPTS, MAKEOPTS keeps the same (for -l).
>
> The result is that you can finally combine -l with parallel build on
> OpenOffice and other packages, with a fallback number of maximum jobs
> instead of using load-based decisions.

Looks Good To Me, but I would prefix the JOBS variable with some sort
of namespace (EJOBS, GENTOO_JOBS, etc.) to avoid conflicts with other
systems that may use JOBS internally already (seems vaguely likely).

-Alec

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