[buildd-tools-devel] Bug#626357: Bug#626357: please add command line switch for parallel builds

[Reinhard Tartler]

On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 12:28:52 (CEST), Roger Leigh wrote:

> On Wed, May 11, 2011 at 11:27:14AM +0200, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
>> It would be cool to have a switch "-j" that behaves similar to debuild,
>> i.e., ammending the environemnt variable DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS to to enable
>> parallel builds.
>
> This should be possible now with --debbuildopts=-jn which gets
> passed to dpkg-buildpackage.

Indeed, but currently at least underdocumented.

> We can, of course, add a -j option which does the same thing, but
> more conveniently.

Yes, that would be great!

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