[bug#56558] [PATCH] build: Simpler percentage calculation.

[Liliana Marie Prikler]

Am Freitag, dem 15.07.2022 um 12:17 +0200 schrieb Csepp:
> 
> Liliana Marie Prikler <liliana.prikler@ist.tugraz.at> writes:
> 
> > Am Donnerstag, dem 14.07.2022 um 16:58 +0200 schrieb raingloom:
> > > * build-aux/compile-all (%): Simpler calculation that avoids
> > > intermediate float.
> > > ---
> > >  build-aux/compile-all.scm | 2 +-
> > >  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/build-aux/compile-all.scm b/build-aux/compile-
> > > all.scm
> > > index 9ffbce43ad..6fdbe0dea8 100644
> > > --- a/build-aux/compile-all.scm
> > > +++ b/build-aux/compile-all.scm
> > > @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ (define (parallel-job-count*)
> > >  
> > >  (define (% completed total)
> > >    "Return the completion percentage of COMPLETED over TOTAL as
> > > an
> > > integer."
> > > -  (inexact->exact (round (* 100. (/ completed total)))))
> > > +  (quotient (* 100 completed) total))
> > I am fairly certain that this changes the semantics of %.  Try for
> > example (% 23 24).
> > 
> > Cheers
> 
> It rounds down instead of up, which, :shrug:.
> If that's a deal breaker, feel free to close this.
It's not simply "rounding up", you need to round towards the nearest,
which can be done with just quotient and remainder, but is probably
more complicated than the float solution.