Rafael Espíndola wrote:	[Thu May 12 2005, 02:40:46PM EDT]
> Why does get_number_of_jobs reduces the number of parallel jobs to "to
> ensure successful merge"? In my humble opinion if a package fails to
> compile with a large -j then the ebuild should know the limit and
> reduce it.

Nope, if a package doesn't build with large -j then the ebuild should
force -j1.  Either a package is parallel build clean or it isn't.  You
can't make the problem go away by using an intermediate value for -j;
it might work for you but it won't for somebody else.

Regards,
Aron

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Aron Griffis
Gentoo Linux Developer