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From: Jack <ostroffjh@×××××××××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failure for dev-lang/R-4.0.4
Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2021 00:19:38
Message-Id: 82b5718d-95d2-d8cd-e147-0e3d66aff0de@users.sourceforge.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] emerge failure for dev-lang/R-4.0.4 by karl@aspodata.se
1 On 4/4/21 6:44 PM, karl@××××××××.se wrote:
2 > Jack:
3 >> On 2021.04.03 07:15, karl@××××××××.se wrote:
4 > ...
5 >>> make[1]: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....
6 >> Try running with -j1
7 > ...
8 >
9 > I already have:
10 > EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--jobs 1 ...
11 > in make.conf. Don't know why it still wants to run in parallel.
12 --jobs=1 tells emerge to only emerge one package at a time.  The -j 1
13 (actually needs to be part of 'MAKEOPTS="-j1 ...."' is passed in to make
14 to tell it to only compile one piece at a time.  Using a higher number
15 for -j sometimes fails if it needs some intermediate result that has not
16 yet been produced.  Sometimes that failure is consistently repeatable,
17 and sometimes not.