Re: [SOLVED] Re: [gentoo-user] Cannot emerge x11-libs/qt-webkit-4.6.2-r1

[Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>]

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On Sun, 9 May 2010 18:28:31 -0400, Walter Dnes wrote:

> > I have removed ccache from all my systems, the minutes of computer
> > time it saved were not worth the hours of my time it consumed when it
> > broke things.  
> 
>   Ditto for setting MAKEOPTS to -j1.  Every once in a while, somebody
> runs into a problem that is solved by it.  I finally decided to let the
> builds take a little bit longer, in exchange for saving me problems with
> "unreproducable errors".  This setting does not affect the final binary;
> just how long it takes to build.

I can't recall the last time I needed to use MAKEOPTS=-j1, but if you do
set it you can get back the time you lose by using the --jobs option with
emerge. That way you get parallel compilation, but of separate packages.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

It's not who you know; it's whom you know.

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