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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly?
Date: Tue, 26 Mar 2013 08:35:20
Message-Id: 20130326083437.4d1c61e3@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly? by gottlieb@nyu.edu
1 On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:29:00 -0400, gottlieb@×××.edu wrote:
2
3 > > % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice
4 > > app-office/libreoffice j4.conf
5 > >
6 > > % cat /etc/portage/env/j4.conf
7 > > MAKEOPTS="-j4"
8 >
9 > I see. Clever.
10 >
11 > Do you file bugs when you need to restrict MAKEOPTS?
12
13 If I need to restrict it to -j1, it is builds with -j4 I consider the
14 "bug" to be self-inflicted :)
15
16 > Also I am somewhat surprised you can run libreoffice with
17 > MAKEOPTS="-j4". I seem to remember that being one of the ones I had to
18 > degrade.
19
20 I try with -j4, if that fails, I try -j1. ISTR OpenOffice.org used to
21 have -j1 forced in the ebuild. Perhaps the time the LO guys spent on code
22 cleanup covered more than removing a ton of German comments to no longer
23 used functions :-O
24
25
26 --
27 Neil Bothwick
28
29 @@@@ There are two kinds of people in this world: Those who are
30 good with words, and those who are... erm... thingy @@@@

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