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

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