Hi, My MAKEOPTS contains --jobs=4.0 --load-average=6.0 to prevent GMake to spawn several make process which would consume a lot of memory, and thus swapping (kswapd raises the cpu load quite fastly) * Configuring using --with-parallel-jobs=--jobs=4 --load-average=6.0 * econf: updating icedtea6-1.9/config.guess with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.guess * econf: updating icedtea6-1.9/config.sub with /usr/share/gnuconfig/config.sub ./configure --prefix=/usr --build=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --host=x86_64-pc-linux-gnu --mandir=/usr/share/man --infodir=/usr/share/info --datadir=/usr/share --sysconfdir=/etc --localstatedir=/var/lib --libdir=/usr/lib64 --with-openjdk=/usr/lib/icedtea6 --with-parallel-jobs=--jobs=4 --load-average=6.0 --disable-zero --with-openjdk-src-zip=/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/icedtea-6.1.9/distdir/openjdk-6-src-b20-21_jun_2010.tar.gz --with-hotspot-src-zip=/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/icedtea-6.1.9/distdir/ --with-jaxp-drop-zip=/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/icedtea-6.1.9/distdir/jdk6-jaxp-b20.zip --with-jaxws-drop-zip=/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/icedtea-6.1.9/distdir/jdk6-jaxws-b20.zip --with-jaf-drop-zip=/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/icedtea-6.1.9/distdir/jdk6-jaf-b20.zip --with-cacao-src-zip=/var/tmp/portage/dev-java/icedtea-6.1.9/distdir/e321b101a9ee.tar.bz2 --with-java=/usr/lib/jvm/icedtea6/bin/java --with-javac=/usr/lib/jvm/icedtea6/bin/javac --with-javah=/usr/lib/jvm/icedtea6/bin/javah --with-abs-install-dir=/usr/lib64/icedtea6 --enable-optimizations --disable-docs --disable-plugin --with-rhino=/usr/share/rhino-1.6/lib/js.jar --disable-cacao --disable-pulse-java --enable-xrender --disable-systemtap --disable-nio2 --enable-nss configure: error: unrecognized option: `--load-average=6.0' Try `./configure --help' for more information. * ERROR: dev-java/icedtea-6.1.9 failed: * econf failed Here, MAKEOPTS is passed unquoted to econf, so this explain the failure /usr/portage/dev-java/icedtea/icedtea-1.6.9.ebuild:183 # OpenJDK-specific parallelism support. procs=$(echo ${MAKEOPTS} | sed -r 's/.*-j\W*([0-9]+).*/\1/') if [[ -n ${procs} ]] ; then config="${config} --with-parallel-jobs=${procs}"; einfo "Configuring using --with-parallel-jobs=${procs}" fi There are similar bugs, related to non standard MAKEOPTS opt, but the --load-average is _recommanded_ make make.conf(5) man page (and really needed for my low memory system, if I don't want to get a long slow down when compiling big paclages) To solve this, I would suggest to recall bug 241684 comment 11 gives a sed expression that should solve it. Going further, after reading bug 241684 comment 4: Adding a dedicated JOBS make.conf variable just containing an integer will help all maintainers, instead of a per-ebuild crappy sed expression. Another possibility would be to add a eutil function to get only the jobs numbers If one of this two possibilities sounds good to you devs, maybe we can fill a feature request on portage, or suggest it on gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Fixed in the sense that jobs should be detected properly now. Unfortunately the system doesn't support passing load-average.
