[Linux-aus] [Fwd: Call for participants for a panel on Geek Parenting]

[Robert Brockway]

On Tue, 25 Nov 2008, Steve Walsh wrote:

> Paul Shirren wrote:
>> I need to file a launchpad bug because ours didn't arrive with a man
>> page. Did anyone get a man page with theirs?
> We haven't even started thinking about compiling one, but I have heard
> from a lot of Developers that there is quite a bit of hard work to get
> the source package to even start to compile, often involving yelling,
> groaning, swearing and techniques from the pair-programming school of
> thought...

There are some optimisations you can do during the compile which will help 
out here.

> Apparently this gets easier the more you build, but stay away from tools
> that do distributed compiling, that can get you in some legal hotwater.

Yes, you can fork too many child processes.

If I back was in Aus I'd attend that discussion.

Rob (geek dad)

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