parallel destroot problematic
Ryan Schmidt
ryandesign at macports.org
Sat May 17 01:19:47 PDT 2008
"use_parallel_build yes" does more than just run the build phase in
parallel. It also runs the destroot phase in parallel. This has
caused issues for libxml2 and mysql5-devel; see:
http://trac.macports.org/ticket/15295
http://trac.macports.org/changeset/36613
Should we change MacPorts to only add the -j argument to the make
command in the build phase, and not do so in the destroot phase? The
point of running the build in parallel is to make use of additional
CPU cores, but the destroot phase is concerned only with copying
files on disk. Extra CPU cores won't speed that up anyway.
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