I have three bi-cpu box, and use genkernel MAKEOPTS="-j4" from make.conf is not used, but I am not really surprised; neverthe less, /etc/genkernel.conf does not offer any kind of -j option, nor make option, not even generic line that would let add genkernel options in the conf file ... the ONLY way to use -j is toi use --makeopts ON THE COMMAND LINE, and can not be archived definitively in system conf ... (unless using aliases in .bashrc ) PLEASE add two or three new lines in the conf file, and corresponding support in the code. the strict minimum would be a generic line like: GENKERNEL_EXTRA_ARGUMENTS ... or something like that. Thanks.
Yeah, genkernel is Gentoo-agnostic, so it reads *nothing* from make.conf, on purpose. I don't see a problem with adding support to genkernel.conf, though.
Try setting MAKEOPTS='j4' in /etc/genkernel.conf and see if that works.
--makeopts="-j4" is known to work.
Please see comment #2
I have tried MAKEOPTS="j5" and MAKEOPTS="-j5" in /etc/genkernel.conf and I now always got in ps aux: 4978 tty4 S+ 0:00 make -j2 CC=gcc LD=ld AS=as bzImage so ... --makeopts="-j5" does work, but I dislike very much having to think about options every day, especially with tools designed to automate daily tasks ... => - why doesnt MAKEOPTS work in the conf ? - onece support is added and works, please insert an example line in the conf, so that people dont have to grab forums, but already have answers in comments of the conf file. Especially for actual bi cores and coming quadricores CPUs ... which respectively theoretically want -j3 and -j5
Note that genkernel actually use internally -j2, but such an option is quiet ridiculous on computer with several cores, or more than 2 CPUs. Manual override works, but the point of this bug is to ask dev to automate the process.
What kernel is your target? 2.4 or 2.6?
latest kernel yesterday was 2.6.15-gentoo-r1
I just solved the problem. Issue is due to line 82 (on my system) of /usr/share/genkernel/genkernel : source ${ARCH_CONFIG} || gen_die "Could not read ${ARCH_CONFIG}" this call overrides any /etc/genkernel.conf setting. I found that using dychotomy; if adding in there MAKEOPTS="-j77" just before, changes nothing; just after, you get -j77 in ps at run time. Reason is: MAKEOPTS is actually hardcoded in /usr/share/genkernel/<arch>/config.sh . Other parameters of those are ok to be there, but MakeOPTS here override /etc/genkernel.conf ... my fix is to alter all /usr/share/genkernel/<arch>/config.sh that way: replace: MAKEOPTS="-j2" with: if [ "${MAKEOPTS}" == "" ] then MAKEOPTS="-j2" fi That has to be done for all architectures, since every single arch overrides that variable locally. I have found no way to affect all arch nicer way. This fix DOES solve actual bug, and DOES NOT affect CLI options, what really surprised me in fact :) So, please update package, and wait for stabilisation before closing. Cheers everybody.
Fixed in 3.4.0_pre1, thanks.
