Tom Stellard wrote:
On 06/22/2020 10:00 AM, Björn Persson wrote:
> Tom Stellard wrote:
>> The reason I put in the proposal that all make invocations would be updated,
>> is because this is easier to script and it would be hard for someone who
>> doesn't know the package to make the call about which invocations don't
>> need to use parallel make.
>
> It's often tempting to do the easy thing instead of the right thing.
What do you think would be the right thing to do in this case?
To study each make invocation, determine whether it's parallelizable
and judge whether future build flags will be appropriate – which is
obviously much more work for the person pushing the change, but avoids
making work for package maintainers.
Björn Persson