Bug 128513

Summary:	rpmbuild uses innumerable jobs when /proc not mounted
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3	Reporter:	Leonard den Ottolander <leonard-rh-bugzilla>
Component:	openjade	Assignee:	Tim Waugh <twaugh>
Status:	CLOSED RAWHIDE	QA Contact:	Brock Organ <borgan>
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Description Leonard den Ottolander 2004-07-23 21:45:06 UTC

The assignment and test
NRPROC='`egrep -c "^cpu[0-9]+" /proc/stat || ;`
[ "$NRPROC" = "0" ] && NRPROC = 1

returns an empty result if /proc is not mounted. As a result
make -j$NRPROC 
runs with an unlimited number of jobs which is not very nice when you
do this on a desktop ;) .

An extra test for $NRPROC = "" should fix this.

Comment 1 Tim Waugh 2004-07-26 16:33:11 UTC

This is fixed (using a different method) in rawhide.