diff config @ 962:3d2261361009

Remove the --extract option from download.sh, since EXTRACT_ALL=1 does the same thing and everything _else_ is controlled by environment variables. At it to the config file and adjust existing users.
author Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
date Mon, 01 Feb 2010 03:46:49 -0600
parents fc134a13357e
children 30e4bab11f9e
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--- a/config	Thu Jan 28 13:58:18 2010 -0600
+++ b/config	Mon Feb 01 03:46:49 2010 -0600
@@ -95,6 +95,16 @@
 
 # export SKIP_STRIP=1
 
+# Set this to tell download.sh to extract all the tarballs up-front right
+# after downloading them.  (Otherwise the tarball is extracted by setupfor
+# the first time the build tries to use it.)
+#
+# Extracting tarballs early is useful in order to run multiple build.sh
+# instances in parallel when building multiple targets, or to test that
+# new patches added to the sources/patches directory apply cleanly.
+
+# export EXTRACT_ALL=1
+
 # This isn't actually one of our variables, but a number of packages listen
 # to this to add extra debug info to their binaries.  (Use with SKIP_STRIP)