RE: [gentoo-user] disable dropping to -j1 when building certain programs

I was not suggesting making ebuilds that will ignore mandatory -j1. I
was merely trying to find out what is the correct variable to use in
make.conf...I'm willing sacrifice my system for experimental purposes. I
remember it being something_MP="" or similar. It exists as an option in
make.conf I have it set a home but can't remember what it is. Does
anyone happen to know?

-----Original Message-----
From: Steen Eugen Poulsen [mailto:sep@×××××××××.net] 
Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 12:29 PM
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] disable dropping to -j1 when building certain
programs

Marzan, Richard non Unisys skrev:
> How can I disable portage dropping or overriding my MAKEOPTS variable
> setting when building certain programs?
>

Isn't that self defeating, when an ebuild contains enforced -j1 it's 
because the program can't compile with -j2 or higher. The makefile is 
written badly and doesn't provide make with the needed information to
safely create the execution path. Fx. making a library other parts of 
the code use is not blocking compilation of all files depending on this 
internal library.

Or my personal favorite:
create somefile
mv somefile someplace/somefile
mv someplace/somefile someotherplace/somefile

Dunno why someone needs to move a file twice in a row... but some make 
files does things like this.

But sure go ahead and make custom ebuilds without the make -j1.



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