[Pkg-dkms-maint] Bug#663114: dkms should use parallel build on multiprocessor systems

[Michal Suchanek]

Package: dkms
Version: 2.2.0.3-1
Severity: wishlist


Installing dkms packages takes quite some time.

It would be nice if dkms could use all cores on multicore systems to
build the kernel modules. I am sure that for some modules this would
speed up things quite a bit.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: wheezy/sid
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (900, 'stable'), (500, 'testing'), (410, 'unstable'), (200, 'experimental'), (111, 'oldstable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) (ignored: LC_ALL set to en_US.UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages dkms depends on:
ii  build-essential               11.5       Informational list of build-essent
ii  coreutils                     8.13-3     GNU core utilities
ii  dpkg-dev                      1.16.1.2   Debian package development tools
ii  gcc                           4:4.6.2-4  GNU C compiler
ii  make                          3.81-8.1   An utility for Directing compilati
ii  module-init-tools             3.12-2     tools for managing Linux kernel mo
ii  patch                         2.6-2      Apply a diff file to an original

Versions of packages dkms recommends:
ii  fakeroot             1.14.4-1            Gives a fake root environment
ii  linux-headers-3.1.0- 3.1.8-2             Header files for Linux 3.1.0-1-amd
ii  linux-headers-3.2.0- 3.2.6-1             Header files for Linux 3.2.0-1-amd
ii  linux-headers-amd64  3.2+43              Header files for Linux amd64 confi
ii  linux-image-3.1.0-1- 3.1.8-2             Linux 3.1 for 64-bit PCs
ii  linux-image-3.2.0-1- 3.2.6-1             Linux 3.2 for 64-bit PCs
ii  menu                 2.1.44              generates programs menu for all me
ii  sudo                 1.7.4p4-2.squeeze.2 Provide limited super user privile

dkms suggests no packages.

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