Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j

2011-08-25 Thread Dale
Peter Humphrey wrote: On Thursday 25 August 2011 14:16:45 Dale wrote: CPUs are so fast nowadays, they can do a lot pretty fast. I'm trying to imagine 10 years from now. O_O You'll be back to HAL by then - the one you speak to, that is. < Dale orders more silver bullets. >

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j

2011-08-25 Thread Paul Hartman
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 2:37 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Have anyone experienced problems with MAKEOPTS? > > I have a quad-core system, so I put in "-j5". But that resulted in > emerge fails for binutils and ppl. I have to change it to "-j3" before > ppl can be emerged, even "-j1" before binutils ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j

2011-08-25 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Thursday 25 August 2011 14:16:45 Dale wrote: > CPUs are so fast nowadays, they can do a lot pretty fast. I'm trying to > imagine 10 years from now. O_O You'll be back to HAL by then - the one you speak to, that is. -- Rgds Peter Linux Counter 5290, 1994-04-23

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j

2011-08-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Dale wrote: > Michael Mol wrote: >> >> Sometimes. My understanding is that it comes from packages which are >> badly constructed, and can't reliably handle parallel builds. I'm told >> that these cases are bugs and should be reported. Sometimes, if I >> watch build

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j

2011-08-25 Thread Dale
Michael Mol wrote: Sometimes. My understanding is that it comes from packages which are badly constructed, and can't reliably handle parallel builds. I'm told that these cases are bugs and should be reported. Sometimes, if I watch build output fly by, I'll even see something like make -j10 -j1 (

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j

2011-08-25 Thread Michael Mol
On Thu, Aug 25, 2011 at 3:37 AM, Pandu Poluan wrote: > Have anyone experienced problems with MAKEOPTS? > > I have a quad-core system, so I put in "-j5". But that resulted in > emerge fails for binutils and ppl. I have to change it to "-j3" before > ppl can be emerged, even "-j1" before binutils ca

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j

2011-08-25 Thread Dale
Joost Roeleveld wrote: On Thursday, August 25, 2011 02:37:21 PM Pandu Poluan wrote: Have anyone experienced problems with MAKEOPTS? I have a quad-core system, so I put in "-j5". But that resulted in emerge fails for binutils and ppl. I have to change it to "-j3" before ppl can be emerged, e

Re: [gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j

2011-08-25 Thread Joost Roeleveld
On Thursday, August 25, 2011 02:37:21 PM Pandu Poluan wrote: > Have anyone experienced problems with MAKEOPTS? > > I have a quad-core system, so I put in "-j5". But that resulted in > emerge fails for binutils and ppl. I have to change it to "-j3" before > ppl can be emerged, even "-j1" before bin

[gentoo-user] Problems with MAKEOPTS -j

2011-08-25 Thread Pandu Poluan
Have anyone experienced problems with MAKEOPTS? I have a quad-core system, so I put in "-j5". But that resulted in emerge fails for binutils and ppl. I have to change it to "-j3" before ppl can be emerged, even "-j1" before binutils can be emerged. Anyone experiencing the same? Rgds, -- -- Pa