app-office/openoffice is quite a huge build. Building in parallel speeds up builds considerably and makes a lot of sense nowadays as dual- and quadcore systems are more and more present on the user's side. The portage system already supports parallel builds for standard make, which works quite fine. I don't know the build system for openoffice, but it would be nice to have something like 'make -j 4' there as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. emerge openoffice Actual Results: see that it uses only one cpu and takes ages Expected Results: use all available/configure amount of cpus and build faster :)
It already does, you just need to add 'WANT_MP=true' to your /etc/make.conf
*blush* Thanks.
