On Thursday 20 September 2007 22:27:18 Marzan, Richard non Unisys wrote:
> I was not suggesting making ebuilds that will ignore mandatory -j1. I
> was merely trying to find out what is the correct variable to use in
> make.conf...I'm willing sacrifice my system for experimental purposes. I
> remember it being something_MP="" or similar. It exists as an option in
> make.conf I have it set a home but can't remember what it is. Does
> anyone happen to know?

Stop top-posting.

I suppose you are speaking of WANT_MP=true which is used by a few packages 
(mozilla-sunbird, mozilla-firefox and openoffice). It does not affect any 
other packages though.

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Bo Andresen