On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 08:11:12 +0000 (UTC) Duncan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ionut cucu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted [EMAIL PROTECTED], > excerpted below, on Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:39:28 +0200: > > > Unfortunately asus_acpi doesn't compile > > (http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=208577). > > I don't know anything about the laptop driver, but from my > experience, missing stuff is often due to parallel make. Try setting > MAKEOPTS=-j1 and see if it makes a difference. It may be worth > adding the result of trying that to the bug, as well, regardless of > whether it works or not. > > (FWIW, I'm running dual-dual-core Opterons, 8 gigs RAM, and have > MAKEOPTS="-j20 -l12", and once in awhile when I'm doing nothing else, > I'll run simply -j, unlimited jobs, just for kicks, as it's fun > watching the load average go to several-hundred! =8^) The more jobs, > of course the more likely one is to run into parallel-make problems, > so I probably run into them more frequently then most, and am > therefore learning the hard way what sorts of errors they produce. > =8^) > > One other possibility, not so likely but possible since it's kernel > sources you are dealing with and they of course come from another > package, double-check permissions, particularly if you use > FEATURES=userpriv. Make sure the portage user has write permissions > in the kernel dir and subdirs. > Wow! You're a genius man! With -j1 it worked -- [email protected] mailing list
