On Sun, 9 May 2010 18:28:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote: > > I have removed ccache from all my systems, the minutes of computer > > time it saved were not worth the hours of my time it consumed when it > > broke things. > > Ditto for setting MAKEOPTS to -j1. Every once in a while, somebody > runs into a problem that is solved by it. I finally decided to let the > builds take a little bit longer, in exchange for saving me problems with > "unreproducable errors". This setting does not affect the final binary; > just how long it takes to build.
I can't recall the last time I needed to use MAKEOPTS=-j1, but if you do set it you can get back the time you lose by using the --jobs option with emerge. That way you get parallel compilation, but of separate packages. -- Neil Bothwick It's not who you know; it's whom you know.
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