On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 04:11:44AM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > > For the third time, I made sure I had top open. As soon as the > problem started, I had about an extra 275 jobs (actual number 377 - > with the same number of terms, and top, I initially had 101 jobs on > an idle machine) and the build uses two scripts. And at least the > first 39 of those jobs were cc1plus (according to 'top' - the only > other thing that showed was top itself). > > Anyone else seeing anything weird like this ? Any ideas ? > Embarrassingly (sp?) it's down to me. I'd copied the BLFS book's configuration for xulrunner, including the line mk_add_options MOZ_MAKE_FLAGS=-j$MAKEFLAGS
Like one ofi the lines in the mozilla config, which I caught, that dollar needs to be escaped. If it _is_ escaped, but MAKEFLAGS is not set, make traps it and errors. Currently building with -j2 while I write this. Will fix the book somewhen, once I've built firefox. ĸen -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
