Re: mock 0.8.9 for EPEL-5

[Manuel Wolfshant <wolfy nobugconsulting ro>]

José Matos wrote:
> On Tuesday 20 November 2007 22:00:01 Manuel Wolfshant wrote:
>   
> > On 11/20/2007 11:54 PM, Rex Dieter wrote:
> >     
> > > Michael E Brown wrote:
> > >       
> > > > There is a head-scratcher. I *thought* that it was rpmbuild's
> > > > responsibility to automatically detect the number of processors in the
> > > > system and add this flag, if necessary.
> > > >         
> > > Yes, %{_smp_mflags} gets defined automatically
> > >       
> > Could it be that the option is defined automatically in koji (plague?)
> > but not on my box?
> > I had a package not compiling with -j3 and I detected it only after
> > adding the said option to mock config.
> >     
>
> Notice that unless you have three processors the flag will have the number of 
> processors on your machine. Depending on the package you are building the 
> bottleneck is not the cpu but the disc so it is possible to increase the 
> value and have better build times.
>
> I do it all the time. :-)
I was not interested in build time but in making sure that the 
compilation process actually works. There are cases where bugs prevent 
parallel make.

   Manuel