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author | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-12-07 14:35:38 -0500 |
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committer | Joey Hess <joey@gnu.kitenet.net> | 2009-12-07 14:35:38 -0500 |
commit | c193b7371fed2f042430f56ec981abf5ff6c0caf (patch) | |
tree | 269fbed908660579129594f91b3442e97effdc03 /debhelper.pod | |
parent | f0a8af661d4d74979197ae2b9e61547b947ba555 (diff) |
changelog and doc rewording
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/debhelper.pod b/debhelper.pod index 19d1d497..a4765bab 100644 --- a/debhelper.pod +++ b/debhelper.pod @@ -219,21 +219,20 @@ directory path that is the same as the source directory path. =item B<--parallel> -Enable support for parallel builds if underlying build system provides this -feature. The number of parallel processes is controlled by the +Enable parallel builds if underlying build system supports them. +The number of parallel jobs is controlled by the DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS environment variable (L<Debian Policy, section 4.9.1>) at -build time. It might also be subject to the build system specific limit. +build time. It might also be subject to a build system specific limit. If this option is not specified, debhelper currently defaults to not -supporting parallel package builds. +allowing parallel package builds. =item B<--max-parallel>I<=maximum> -This option implies L<--parallel> and allows to further limit the number of +This option implies L<--parallel> and allows further limiting the number of jobs that can be used in a parallel build. If the package build is known to only work with certain levels of concurrency, you can set this to the maximum -level that is known to work, or that you wish to support. If set to 1, parallel -builds will be effectively forbidden. +level that is known to work, or that you wish to support. =item B<--list>, B<-l> |