proposal for make help chain-build text
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Fri Oct 3 08:36:58 UTC 2008
Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 02:21:03PM +0200, Patrice Dumas wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> Here is a proposal for the result of make help for the chain-build
>> target, what I changed relates with : and prallel builds:
>>
>> chain-build Build current package in order with
>> other packages
>> example: make chain-build CHAIN='libwidget libgizmo'
>> The current package is added to the end of the CHAIN list.
>> Colons (:) can be used in the CHAIN parameter to define
>> parallely built package groups.
>> Packages in a single group will be built in parallel,
>> and all packages in a group must build successfully and
>> populate the repository before the next group will begin building.
>> For example
>> make chain-build CHAIN='libwidget libaselib : libgizmo
>> :'
>> will cause libwidget and libaselib to be build in parallel,
>> followed by libgizmo and then the current directory package.
>> If no groups are defined, packages will be built sequentially.
>
> There were no negative nor positive comments. Who's in charge here?
Test looks good to me, and certainly explains things better than the
existing text.
Paul.
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