11166 – MAKEOPTS="-j" may break emerge builds

Bug 11166 - MAKEOPTS="-j" may break emerge builds

Summary: MAKEOPTS="-j" may break emerge builds

Status:	RESOLVED FIXED

Alias:	None

Product:	Portage Development
Classification:	Unclassified
Component:	Core (show other bugs)
Hardware:	x86 Linux

Importance:	High normal (vote)
Assignee:	Daniel Robbins (RETIRED)

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Reported:	2002-11-24 15:51 UTC by Giles Coochey
Modified:	2011-10-30 22:36 UTC (History)
CC List:	0 users

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Description Giles Coochey 2002-11-24 15:51:12 UTC

For users with SMP systems compile speed can sometimes be vastly improved by
having MAKEOPTS="-j" in /etc/make.conf

This currently breaks the building of some packages, because an object file is
not always compiled fully before make tries to link it. I assume that this could
be fixed in someway.

packages to test this on are lynx and gconf.

Comment 1 Daniel Robbins (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2002-12-10 10:11:08 UTC

If MAKEOPTS breaks an ebuild, then it is a bug. We can tweak the ebuild to not
build in parallel. Please report specific instances that fail as individual bugs.