On Mon, 2009-07-06 at 17:53 -0400, Mike Edenfield wrote: > On 7/6/2009 4:23 PM, Jarry wrote: > > Mike Edenfield wrote: > >> On 7/6/2009 2:23 PM, Jarry wrote: > > >>> MAKEOPTS="-j2" > > >> Can you try this again without -j2 in the make opts? The gcc build > >> process is enough of a pain to debug when you can see output > >> sequentially, running parallel makes makes it worse. > > > Now this is strange: I commented out that MAKEOPTS="-j2" in make.conf > > and gcc compilled without any complaint. I did not change anything > > else! Can't believe this. I will check it tomorrow again, with -j2 > > and without... > > I can't explain why this happens but I do know that I've seen a number > of complex builds (especially gcc/glibc) that just randomly fail when > using a parallel make. I see this effect on FreeBSD moreso than Gentoo, > but I suspect that's only a question of scale. > > --Mike >
Try MAKEOPTS="-j1" - the default is still j2 if you just delete the variable. Ive also seen this a lot recently. Serialising the make process into one thread helps. BillK
