On 06/19/2020 03:17 PM, Tomasz Kłoczko wrote:
On Fri, 19 Jun 2020 at 22:20, Ben Cotton <bcotton@redhat.com mailto:bcotton@redhat.com> wrote: [..]
The %make_build macro enables parallel make builds using the -j option. In case a package does not build correctly with parallel make, then parallel make will be disabled for that package by redefining the %_smp_mflags macro like this: %global _smp_mflags -j1
Sometimes only %build or %install or %check is failing.
That's a good point. What if as an alternative as part of this change, we used %make_build -j1 in the case where parallel building does not work?
Any -j1 tweaks should be *only temporary* so IMO formalising this kind of changes is pointless. All parallel build issues should be treated *as critical bugs* which should be *ASAP fixed*.
So are you saying that we should not document the %make_build -j1 convention and instead update the documentation to state that parallel build failures must be fixed?
Even if we don't document this new convention, I still thing it should be used for this change, because I think having %make_build -j1 makes it obvious something is broken and more likely to get fixed.
-Tom
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