Jeremy Olexa wrote: > Tony, > Some ebuilds filter out MAKEOPTS="-jX" because the makefile(?) is not > written correctly to compile with more than one concurrent compile > process. According to the OOo ebuild, -jX is not filtered, so that is > not the case. Also, you may have checked the CPU usage when it was > extracting the tarball, obviously the choke point here would be the HD, > not the CPU. Actually ... # Should the build use multiprocessing? Not enabled by default, as it tends to break export JOBS="1" if [ "${WANT_DISTCC}" == "true" ]; then export JOBS=`echo "${MAKEOPTS}" | sed -e "s/.*-j\([0-9]\+\).*/\1/"` fi Then later on, this gets passed to configure: --with-num-cpus="${JOBS}" \ To sum up, you need to set the WANT_DISTCC variable to use parallel builds on openoffice because they're fragile. Thanks, Donnie