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Subject: [gentoo-user] Is 'MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"' silly?
Date: Mon, 25 Mar 2013 16:57:09 -0400
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For a long time I have had in make.conf

EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--ask --deep --tree --verbose --jobs --load-average=5"
MAKEOPTS="--jobs --load-average=5"

(for previous processors the 5 was 3).

It seems that this configuration fails for several packages (or tickles
bugs in their ebuilds/Makefiles).

Lately whenever a build fails I change to

MAKEOPTS="--jobs=1"

and this very often "fixes" the problem.

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