On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 19:43 +0300, Эмиль Кранц wrote: > By trial and error I have found that any action that takes more than > one SBU in LFS is better off with -j1. > > BLFS packages are more agreeable with -j2 switch. > > On my dual core machine only kernel compiles flawlessly with -j2 > switch. Binutils and compiled against them gcc and glibc were all > faulty with -j2. I have discovered it early enough, at the entering > the chroot environment. It may be a peculiarity of my abacus, of > course. However, I'd stick with recommendation not to use -j2 in > production environment.
That surprises me. Runnning tests in parallel may be flaky, but the actual compilation step should be fine. Every package in the book built fine with -j6, last time I tried (on hardware capable of it). Simon.
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