For sure one downside is that the output is less verbose (you wouldn't
see anything otherwise) and buffered; in case of an error only last 10
or so lines are printed which makes it harder to debug. When I
encounter such problem I always rerun the build without -j to see the
actual problem in full.
Unexperienced users would have much problem with this.
Best regards,
Krzysztof Skrzętnicki
On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Guy
Brent Yorgey wrote:
No; when the -j flag is turned on it uses an abbreviated output format that just tells you *what* it is doing (downloading XYZ package, configuring foo, building baz...) but not the details, with the details going to a separate log file for each package. There may soon also be a way to use it with hydra-print which could be nice.
So if there aren't any downsides, why not make it the default?
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