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From: Aron Griffis <agriffis@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] using -j1 with distcc?
Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 15:34:47
Message-Id: 20060913152914.GB5691@gentoo.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] using -j1 with distcc? by Brian Harring
1 Brian Harring wrote: [Wed Sep 13 2006, 10:52:17AM EDT]
2 > Similar trickery in app-office/openoffice, although they enable -jN if
3 > distcc is enabled, else -j1 ...
4 >
5 > Always wondered how that was valid, just avoid OO compiles enough it
6 > wasn't something I ever got around to looking into :)
7
8 The openoffice ebuild is okay. It disables parallel builds by
9 default, since openoffice isn't parallel safe. But the ebuild
10 provides a sekrit variable WANT_DISTCC that can be set to use -j* from
11 MAKEOPTS.
12
13 In this case WANT_DISTCC is a misnomer but the technique isn't
14 actually bad.
15
16 Aron