On Sunday 22 April 2012 15:23:42 Torsten Veller wrote:
> * Mike Frysinger <vapier@g.o>:
> > On Monday 26 March 2012 22:43:43 Nikos Chantziaras wrote:
> > > I have an ebuild that uses jam as its build system.  jam supports
> > > parallel builds with -jN.  However, other make options are not
> > > recognized.  So in the ebuild, I can't just pass ${MAKEOPTS}.
> > > 
> > > Is there a way to filter out just the "-jN" part of MAKEOPTS and pass
> > > it on?
> > 
> > i've committed makeopts_jobs to eutils.eclass for you to use
> 
> You also changed other eclasses to use makeopts_jobs.
> But makeopts_jobs currently doesn't support --jobs... in MAKEOPTS.
> 
> Can you please add support for "--jobs[=jobs]" to makeopts_jobs?

i don't see much point in supporting --jobs as no one really uses that style, 
but i did it for the fun of writing sed anyways.  the other examples didn't 
support the full make syntax either, so i fixed that in the process.
-mike