it spawns dozen of configure processes AFAICS here at the tinderbox where I try to chain each emerge with -j2.
The bug has been closed via the following commit(s): https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=79148ea1d49db199aa0f9f1886632b7abca4cc25 commit 79148ea1d49db199aa0f9f1886632b7abca4cc25 Author: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> AuthorDate: 2021-07-05 07:49:43 +0000 Commit: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> CommitDate: 2021-07-05 07:49:43 +0000 dev-lang/erlang: run configure in serial ./configure does not take much time. And is certainly orders of magnitude slower than the build itself. Let's keep predictable parallelism by running sub-configure serially. Reported-by: Toralf Förster Closes: https://bugs.gentoo.org/790563 Package-Manager: Portage-3.0.20, Repoman-3.0.3 Signed-off-by: Sergei Trofimovich <slyfox@gentoo.org> dev-lang/erlang/erlang-24.0.2.ebuild | 1 + dev-lang/erlang/files/erlang-24.0.2-serial-configure.patch | 12 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 13 insertions(+)