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From: Mike Edenfield <kutulu@××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed...
Date: Mon, 06 Jul 2009 21:54:02
Message-Id: 4A527272.4050208@kutulu.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc update failed... by Jarry
1 On 7/6/2009 4:23 PM, Jarry wrote:
2 > Mike Edenfield wrote:
3 >> On 7/6/2009 2:23 PM, Jarry wrote:
4
5 >>> MAKEOPTS="-j2"
6
7 >> Can you try this again without -j2 in the make opts? The gcc build
8 >> process is enough of a pain to debug when you can see output
9 >> sequentially, running parallel makes makes it worse.
10
11 > Now this is strange: I commented out that MAKEOPTS="-j2" in make.conf
12 > and gcc compilled without any complaint. I did not change anything
13 > else! Can't believe this. I will check it tomorrow again, with -j2
14 > and without...
15
16 I can't explain why this happens but I do know that I've seen a number
17 of complex builds (especially gcc/glibc) that just randomly fail when
18 using a parallel make. I see this effect on FreeBSD moreso than Gentoo,
19 but I suspect that's only a question of scale.
20
21 --Mike

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