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| author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-11-25 22:32:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2014-11-25 22:37:44 +0100 |
| commit | f6526eb330c6be9c20cf9486b59d7f9ea84ffda3 (patch) | |
| tree | 3427d23e92b0cdb583b82b4f0fde26241b32e1d6 /doc | |
| parent | 1b366ee4f6dff35b3bef259f4a64832b580178c9 (diff) | |
guix build: Add '--max-jobs' option.
Suggested by Deck Pickard <deck.r.pickard@gmail.com>.
* guix/scripts/build.scm (show-build-options-help): Document
--max-jobs.
(set-build-options-from-command-line): Pass #:max-build-jobs.
(%standard-build-options): Add --max-jobs.
* doc/guix.texi (Invoking guix-daemon): Document the meaning of
'--max-jobs 0'.
(Invoking guix build): Document --max-jobs, with a reference to
"Invoking guix-daemon'.
Diffstat (limited to 'doc')
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/guix.texi | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi index a88b7747fc..fe1f8a8b76 100644 --- a/doc/guix.texi +++ b/doc/guix.texi @@ -596,7 +596,9 @@ parallelism---for instance, by running @code{make -j$NIX_BUILD_CORES}. @item --max-jobs=@var{n} @itemx -M @var{n} Allow at most @var{n} build jobs in parallel. The default value is -@code{1}. +@code{1}. Setting it to @code{0} means that no builds will be performed +locally; instead, the daemon will offload builds (@pxref{Daemon Offload +Setup}), or simply fail. @item --debug Produce debugging output. @@ -2765,6 +2767,12 @@ may be helpful when debugging setup issues with the build daemon. Allow the use of up to @var{n} CPU cores for the build. The special value @code{0} means to use as many CPU cores as available. +@item --max-jobs=@var{n} +@itemx -M @var{n} +Allow at most @var{n} build jobs in parallel. @xref{Invoking +guix-daemon, @code{--max-jobs}}, for details about this option and the +equivalent @command{guix-daemon} option. + @end table Behind the scenes, @command{guix build} is essentially an interface to |