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From: gottlieb@nyu.edu
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly?
References: <87sj3jw63e.fsf@nyu.edu> <20130325222558.5f1d4871@digimed.co.uk>
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 22:29:00 -0400
In-Reply-To: <20130325222558.5f1d4871@digimed.co.uk> (Neil Bothwick's message
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On Mon, Mar 25 2013, Neil Bothwick wrote:

> On Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:57:09 -0400, gottlieb@nyu.edu wrote:
>
>> It is not clear that any time saved by having jobs=5 compensates for
>> having to redo builds.  So my question is do people
>> 
>> 1. keep jobs=1 in MAKEOPTS
>> 2. have jobs=n in MAKEOPTS but degrade on error as I do
>> 3. have jobs=n and file bugs when it fails.
>> 
>> thanks,
>> allan
>> 
>> PS I do not change EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS
>
> I have "--jobs --load-average=12" in EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS and override
> this for known problematic packages in /etc/portage/package.env.
>
> For example:
>
> % cat /etc/portage/package.env/libreoffice 
> app-office/libreoffice j4.conf
>
> % cat /etc/portage/env/j4.conf 
> MAKEOPTS="-j4"

I see.  Clever.

Do you file bugs when you need to restrict MAKEOPTS?

Also I am somewhat surprised you can run libreoffice
with MAKEOPTS="-j4".  I seem to remember that being one of the ones I
had to degrade.

Thanks for the tip, I will use it.

allan