From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1P3och-0007B9-AW for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 11:26:56 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B4A3CE0805; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 11:25:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com (mail-ew0-f53.google.com [209.85.215.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6CBB9E0805 for ; Thu, 7 Oct 2010 11:25:42 +0000 (UTC) Received: by ewy3 with SMTP id 3so313734ewy.40 for ; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:25:41 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:from:to:subject:date :user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type :content-transfer-encoding:message-id; bh=DOqrRvrZRSNWbIStUtU+KAuP5JcBeNV419JL0G0dWpY=; b=OtDOE4udP9jbvVB+l5Z0eTttMVsCbtRWjf8wxQmXSDhHSYoaCkmy+W1pXA0u6bkZmg joiTlUbjX8v0TSb/fD4L+pqADQUqKvbQPs6boZ8NQZ0aWBnYFWor2CN1temN7P8GzuoU t3WVo8Kuyl+ZOq+J7iO52QhLteAXCaa8c404o= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=from:to:subject:date:user-agent:cc:references:in-reply-to :mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:message-id; b=lUxIkqVkhCbwb8utKLOk8IRmS9eYCeJbd9I0Dgbzh8FWDC4rJzOPhdR/ma/WfyhSKP HzmHQ7GlbZTXbXiXAbq5EJv6GTChPl7EXtSqnzuIower6Vc72h254obNoQ5vEXOBkdID iIRBmEHX9xJJ/EA6Fry+JFmJNedSBFGesI83E= Received: by 10.213.7.18 with SMTP id b18mr1458028ebb.63.1286450741724; Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:25:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from nazgul.localnet (dustpuppy.is.co.za [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id v59sm3277970eeh.22.2010.10.07.04.25.39 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 07 Oct 2010 04:25:39 -0700 (PDT) From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] seq24 fails to comoile Date: Thu, 7 Oct 2010 13:26:08 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (Linux/2.6.35-ck-r3; KDE/4.5.2; x86_64; ; ) Cc: meino.cramer@gmx.de References: <20101007024354.GA5624@solfire> <52213392-0D02-4670-A895-BB16974BC35C@stellar.eclipse.co.uk> <20101007100104.GA5618@solfire> In-Reply-To: <20101007100104.GA5618@solfire> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010071326.09367.alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> X-Archives-Salt: 095cda26-e838-4942-8c3a-7cacceb316f5 X-Archives-Hash: c356eba2c141a62444fe3f10d1fd811d Apparently, though unproven, at 12:01 on Thursday 07 October 2010, meino.cramer@gmx.de did opine thusly: > Stroller [10-10-07 11:53]: > > On 7 Oct 2010, at 06:40, meino.cramer@gmx.de wrote: > > >> ... > > >> > > >>> MAKEOPTS="-j 12" > > >> > > >> Arrrrrrrrgh Nooooooooo!!! That's probably your problem right there. > > >> The recommendation in the manual is N+1, where N == number of cores. > > >> Do you have 11 or more cores? I find that even that isn't always > > >> safe. I set... > > >> > > >> MAKEOPTS="-j 1" > > >> ... > > > > > > I made the changes you suggested and now got an different error ... it > > > still does not compile. > > > > Did you reduce it to (the number of cores in your system + 1) or to "-j > > 1"? > > > > If the former, try the latter. > > > > Stroller. > > Yes, I reduces -j to n=1 (why exist this option, if it does not > work?) You misunderstand. The option works just fine and does (correctly) what it is supposed to do. Not all software's build systems out there plays nicely with parallel compiles. ooO for instance is really finicky about it. You can't blame portage for stupid coding errors that other people make, or stupid configurations that you make. -- alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com