[Slackbuilds-users] -j make flag

Willy Sudiarto Raharjo willysr at slackbuilds.org
Mon Dec 30 02:09:40 UTC 2013


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On Mon 30 Dec 2013 02:46:33 AM WIT, B Watson wrote:
> misc/nvclock and games/quakeforge both have "make -j1" followed by "make
> install" without -j1, and both fail during the install when MAKEFLAGS
> is set in the environment and contains e.g. -j8. Changing 'make install
> DESTDIR=$PKG' to 'make -j1 install DESTDIR=$PKG' fixes them.
>
> There are quite a few other builds that use -j1 for the make but not for
> the install. I haven't tried building them all to see whether they're
> affected by the same issue (the one I did test, system/twin, works fine
> without the -j1 in the make install).
>
> It's probably a good idea for new slackbuilds that need -j1 to go ahead
> and use it in the make install step, too. It won't hurt anything, and
> probably won't even slow things down (installing files is I/O bound,
> not likely to be sped up by parallelization).

Fixed in my branch

Thanks

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Willy Sudiarto Raharjo
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