Mike Frysinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ok, so the latter saves me from repeating all standard functions > > with emake -j1. Thanks. > sorry, i'll be a bit more specific ... the reason appending MAKEOPTS > has been sliding is due to the large volume of gnome ebuilds and > integrated eclasses ... it isnt trivial to pass that information > along since the emake happens in nested eclasses, so MAKEOPTS gets > incremented in the ebuild
It is an ebuild based on gnome.eclass, so it hits your case. :) > if you're doing it to avoid -j1 in like two calls to emake, that's > poor taste :p I did not want to repeat whole gnome.eclass definitions. > also, any package that fails -j1 building should have an open bug > about it ... parallel building isnt something to be workedaround with > -j1 and then ignored as it can severely screw people (consider > systems that have a crap ton of slow procs -- common for mips people) That software is from 2005 and I can't help it as I was doing arch maintenance, maintainers were not reacting => not my beer anymore. V-Li -- Christian Faulhammer, Gentoo Lisp project <URL:http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/lisp/>, #gentoo-lisp on FreeNode <URL:http://www.faulhammer.org/>
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