Re: [gentoo-dev] Setting number of parallel builds for other build-systems than 'make'

[Donnie Berkholz]

Tiziano Müller wrote:
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> Hi everyone
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> It seems that setting the number of parallel builds using '-jN' does not
> only work for make, but also for scons and bjam (and maybe others as well).
> Since it isn't save to assume that '-jN' is the only option in MAKEOPTS,
> some filtering is needed.
> Now, SCONSOPTS (BJAMOPTS respectively) could be added to make.conf and used
> whenever one of those build-systems is being used. But we would probably
> have to add a ...OPTS for every build-system.
>
> What do you think? Better ideas?

I think adding it for each build system is probably a good idea, 
nobody's guaranteeing option-level compatibility with make. Optionally 
falling back to using the few valid MAKEOPTS might be a nice addition.

Thanks,
Donnie
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