Re: help setting up guix from source

[Ludovic Courtès]

Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <address@hidden> skribis:

> On Tue, Mar 8, 2016 at 1:01 AM, Ludovic Courtès <address@hidden> wrote:
>> Aleix Conchillo Flaqué <address@hidden> skribis:
>>
>>> When I run "guix package -i glibc-locales" after setting up the daemon I 
>>> get:
>>>
>>> substitute: updating list of substitutes from 'http://hydra.gnu.org'... 
>>> 100.0%
>>>
>>> over and over.
>>
>> For the record, the fact that this line is displayed several times in a
>> row is a side effect of the recent introduction of grafts¹.
>>
>> I’m thinking of improving parallelism and/or increasing caching to
>> mitigate that.
>>
>
> About parallelism, I believe (may be I'm wrong) downloads occur
> sequentially right now, I think running them in parallel would speed
> up things as well.

It’s not entirely clear to me, but you could try by increasing the
number of jobs, as in:

  guix build libreoffice --max-jobs=4

The default is one job at a time (but each job can use all the cores.)

Thanks,
Ludo’.