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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium
Date: Tue, 04 Dec 2018 23:19:53
Message-Id: 20181204231935.3f9dda5d@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] RAM checks for chromium by Mick
1 On Tue, 04 Dec 2018 21:10:05 +0000, Mick wrote:
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3 > > It starts the compile by running make or whatever is appropriate for
4 > > the build, so it doesn't need to build anything already built any
5 > > more than a bare make does. But using ebuild compile means you get
6 > > the same environment as when you started the compile.
7 >
8 > Which will be counterproductive if the reason the compile failed is
9 > because RAM was exhausted and you need to reduce the job number. Could
10 > I define MAKEOPTS on the CLI when running ebuild by hand?
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12 Yes.
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