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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@digimed.co.uk>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] gcc fails and then succeeds - definitely a problem?
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 20:38:42 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120223203842.4bf471b2@digimed.co.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN0CFw392c2j9SxBCLTrO4+_zO+d1k-F7UMcPEA8bMsVc9pWGw@mail.gmail.com>

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On Thu, 23 Feb 2012 11:47:03 -0800, Grant wrote:

> > Parallel builds are not deterministic so if the Makefile allows a race
> > condition to develop it's pot luck whether you'll be hit with it or
> > not  
> 
> I got sick of stuff like that so I run MAKEOPTS="-j1" on all of my
> systems.

If it were a frequent occurrence, there may be some benefit in that. But
using only one of the CPUs 8 cores is such a waste when this sort of
thing happens only every few weeks. Usually trying again works, rarely
does using -j1 make a difference and when it does a bug report ensures
that it won't be an issue in future.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

PROSTITUTE: Receiver of swollen goods.

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-02-23 20:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-02-23 19:17 [gentoo-user] gcc fails and then succeeds - definitely a problem? Grant
2012-02-23 19:23 ` Michael Mol
2012-02-23 19:40   ` Grant
2012-02-23 21:11     ` Grant
2012-02-23 21:18       ` Mark Knecht
2012-02-23 21:27       ` Alex Schuster
2012-02-23 19:25 ` [gentoo-user] " Heorhi Valakhanovich
2012-02-23 19:28 ` [gentoo-user] " Mark Knecht
2012-02-23 19:36   ` Michael Mol
2012-02-23 19:46     ` Mark Knecht
2012-02-23 21:37       ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-23 19:39 ` Alan McKinnon
2012-02-23 19:47   ` Grant
2012-02-23 20:38     ` Neil Bothwick [this message]
2012-02-23 21:00       ` Grant
2012-02-23 22:05         ` Michael Mol

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