[mythtv] CVS Gentoo ebuild

Isaac Richards ijr at case.edu
Tue Jan 25 20:27:35 EST 2005


On Tuesday 25 January 2005 08:11 pm, Rob Hillis wrote:
> Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> >On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 11:24:46PM +0000, Ed Wildgoose wrote:
> >>An ebuild is fundamentally just a way to script a build.  No script
> >>written yesterday can be expected to completely work tomorrow...?
> >
> >It's broken by design. Why does it list the Myth libraries individually?
> >The main Makefile from mythtv is perfectly capable of building the whole
> >package.
>
> ...not if you're compiling in parallel... listing the individual
> libraries seems to be the only way that Myth will compile correctly on
> systems with multiple processors or where distcc has been installed.

That's a rather fun reason to have something horribly broken that generates 
useless mailing list traffic and wastes my bandwidth each and every time a 
directory gets added to the source. 

Isaac


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