Re: [MLUG] Multithreaded compile using apt?

[Jack Smith <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Mon, 2008-04-21 at 07:33 -0500, George Robb wrote:
> Having the single make.conf really is a strong point of Gentoo (I wish  
> they would get their act back together.)
> 
> I think the closest to Gentoo you will get is with apt-build:  sudo  
> apt-get install apt-build.  There is an initial set of menus that you  
> can go through to "turn up" the compile options.
> 
> Here is more on it:
> http://polishlinux.org/linux/debian/apt-build-optimize-debian/

I installed apt-build and used dpkg-reconfigure to set the options for
make as -j3. It still is compiling the package I want compiled (Octave)
using only one thread. Either I didn't set something correctly or it's
just not working properly.

> (I'm a Gentoo kinda guy but, like you have migrated to Debian since  
> the "hiccups" with Gentoo)

Yeah, the hiccups sent me to Debian as well. I'd been happily running
Gentoo for a couple of years until all of the internal politics with the
devs started to cause a mess in the OS. There was no 2007.1, some
packages were very delayed in being updated, and there were some
obviously broken packages getting into stable (libexpat-2.0 ring a
bell?) Also, my main computer is getting on in years and compiles were
taking longer and longer, so all the signs pointed to go elsewhere. I
certainly do miss the flexibility of Gentoo, though. Maybe when the devs
get things back in order and I replace the socket 939 X2 4200+ with a
nice dual-CPU workstation with a bunch 'o cores, I'll go back. 

--Jack


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