Re: [gentoo-user] emerge -j, make -j and make -l

Dale <rdalek1967@×××××.com> wrote:

> covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> > Dale<rdalek1967@×××××.com>  wrote:
> >
> >> covici@××××××××××.com wrote:
> >>> Mick<michaelkintzios@×××××.com>   wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> On Saturday 26 Nov 2011 15:22:15 Michael Mol wrote:
> >>>>> I just wanted to share an experience I had today with optimizing parallel
> >>>>> builds after discovering "-l" for Make...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I've got a little more tweaking I still want to do, but this is pretty
> >>>>> awesome...
> >>>>>
> >>>>> http://funnybutnot.wordpress.com/2011/11/26/optimizing-parallel-builds/
> >>>>>
> >>>>> ZZ
> >>>> Thanks for sharing!  How do you determine the optimum value for -l?
> >>> How do you get emerge not to display number of jobs and load average --
> >>> I only want to compile one at a time -- much safer that way and it is
> >>> doing that, but now it displays all that load average and how many jobs,
> >>> etc. -- any way to get rid of that display?
> >>>
> >> Thank Zac for that.  He thinks he knows what you want.  ;-)
> >> Apparently not huh?
> >>
> >> http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-901858.html
> >>
> >> Just add --quiet-build=n to EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS in make.conf and it
> >> will do it the old way.
> >>
> >> Hope that helps.
> > Thanks much.  Don't these people have anything to do -- like fix ebuild
> > bugs?  Very strange indeed.
> >
>
> Well, they had the poll but the dev thinks he knows better.  So, this
> is Gentoo and the devs rule the roost here.  It's pretty much been
> that way since I started using Gentoo back in 2003.  I don't expect it
> to change and you shouldn't either.  ;-)   Just do like I do, when
> they change something, override it with your own setting.  It works
> for me.

Yep, that is the nice thing about gentoo.

Thanks.

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