509246 – sys-libs/glibc: locale-gen is needlessly single-threaded

Bug 509246 - sys-libs/glibc: locale-gen is needlessly single-threaded

Summary: sys-libs/glibc: locale-gen is needlessly single-threaded

Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 497784

Alias:	None

Product:	Gentoo Linux
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	New packages (show other bugs)
Hardware:	All Linux

Importance:	Normal normal (vote)
Assignee:	Gentoo Toolchain Maintainers

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Reported:	2014-05-01 10:57 UTC by Patrick Lauer
Modified:	2014-05-01 17:43 UTC (History)
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Description Patrick Lauer gentoo-dev

2014-05-01 10:57:09 UTC

Quoting from locale-gen:

Line 73: LOCALE_ARCHIVE=true
Line 147 ff:

if ${LOCALE_ARCHIVE} ; then
        if [[ ${JOBS_MAX} != 1 ]] ; then
                ewarn "Generating locale-archive: forcing # of jobs to 1"
                JOBS_MAX=1
        fi
else
        LOCALEDEF_OPTS="--no-archive ${LOCALEDEF_OPTS}"
fi


So this will never run in parallel, even though the code has machinery for it.

I've locally patched it to see what happens, as expected it runs faster and in parallel. The job tracking seems mildly buggy as it returns to prompt before the last jobs terminate:

 *  (11/14) Generating fa_IR.UTF-8 ... [ ok ]
 * Generation complete
sysresccd / #  *  (12/14) Generating fr_FR.ISO-8859-1 ... [ ok ]
 *  (14/14) Generating it_IT.ISO-8859-1 ... [ ok ]

But that should be fixable too ...

Comment 1 SpanKY gentoo-dev

2014-05-01 17:43:51 UTC


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 497784 ***