On Mon, Mar 25 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:57:09 -0400, gottl...@nyu.edu wrote: > >> It is not clear that any time saved by having jobs=5 compensates for >> having to redo builds. So my question is do people >> >> 1. keep jobs=1 in MAKEOPTS >> 2. have jobs=n in MAKEOPTS but degrade on error as I do >> 3. have jobs=n and file bugs when it fails. >> >> thanks, >> allan >> >> PS I do not change EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS > > I have "--jobs --load-average=12" in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS and override > this for known problematic packages in /etc/portage/package.env. > > For example: > > % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice > app-office/libreoffice j4.conf > > % cat /etc/portage/env/j4.conf > MAKEOPTS="-j4"
I see. Clever. Do you file bugs when you need to restrict MAKEOPTS? Also I am somewhat surprised you can run libreoffice with MAKEOPTS="-j4". I seem to remember that being one of the ones I had to degrade. Thanks for the tip, I will use it. allan
