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-rw-r--r--doc/guix.texi10
-rw-r--r--guix/scripts/build.scm15
2 files changed, 22 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
index a88b7747fc..fe1f8a8b76 100644
--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -596,7 +596,9 @@ parallelism---for instance, by running @code{make -j$NIX_BUILD_CORES}.
@item --max-jobs=@var{n}
@itemx -M @var{n}
Allow at most @var{n} build jobs in parallel. The default value is
-@code{1}.
+@code{1}. Setting it to @code{0} means that no builds will be performed
+locally; instead, the daemon will offload builds (@pxref{Daemon Offload
+Setup}), or simply fail.
@item --debug
Produce debugging output.
@@ -2765,6 +2767,12 @@ may be helpful when debugging setup issues with the build daemon.
Allow the use of up to @var{n} CPU cores for the build. The special
value @code{0} means to use as many CPU cores as available.
+@item --max-jobs=@var{n}
+@itemx -M @var{n}
+Allow at most @var{n} build jobs in parallel. @xref{Invoking
+guix-daemon, @code{--max-jobs}}, for details about this option and the
+equivalent @command{guix-daemon} option.
+
@end table
Behind the scenes, @command{guix build} is essentially an interface to
diff --git a/guix/scripts/build.scm b/guix/scripts/build.scm
index 7b7f419f3a..b4aa33b3a0 100644
--- a/guix/scripts/build.scm
+++ b/guix/scripts/build.scm
@@ -119,7 +119,9 @@ options handled by 'set-build-options-from-command-line', and listed in
(display (_ "
--verbosity=LEVEL use the given verbosity LEVEL"))
(display (_ "
- -c, --cores=N allow the use of up to N CPU cores for the build")))
+ -c, --cores=N allow the use of up to N CPU cores for the build"))
+ (display (_ "
+ -M, --max-jobs=N allow at most N build jobs")))
(define (set-build-options-from-command-line store opts)
"Given OPTS, an alist as returned by 'args-fold' given
@@ -128,6 +130,7 @@ options handled by 'set-build-options-from-command-line', and listed in
(set-build-options store
#:keep-failed? (assoc-ref opts 'keep-failed?)
#:build-cores (or (assoc-ref opts 'cores) 0)
+ #:max-build-jobs (or (assoc-ref opts 'max-jobs) 1)
#:fallback? (assoc-ref opts 'fallback?)
#:use-substitutes? (assoc-ref opts 'substitutes?)
#:use-build-hook? (assoc-ref opts 'build-hook?)
@@ -192,7 +195,15 @@ options handled by 'set-build-options-from-command-line', and listed in
(let ((c (false-if-exception (string->number arg))))
(if c
(apply values (alist-cons 'cores c result) rest)
- (leave (_ "~a: not a number~%") arg)))))))
+ (leave (_ "not a number: '~a' option argument: ~a~%")
+ name arg)))))
+ (option '(#\M "max-jobs") #t #f
+ (lambda (opt name arg result . rest)
+ (let ((c (false-if-exception (string->number arg))))
+ (if c
+ (apply values (alist-cons 'max-jobs c result) rest)
+ (leave (_ "not a number: '~a' option argument: ~a~%")
+ name arg)))))))
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