Bug 236010

Summary:	media-sound/lilypond: forced serial make (-j1) is not needed
Product:	Gentoo Linux	Reporter:	Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) <flameeyes>
Component:	New packages	Assignee:	Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) <hkbst>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	scheme
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Diego Elio Pettenò (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-08-28 11:18:46 UTC

The ebuild in summary is currently forcing users to use serial make (-j1, no extra job tasks). This seems not to be needed (as the doc USE flag has been commented out).

The ebuild was modified to use -j8 on a truly 8-core SMP system and didn't fail the build, you should either check if it's a particular USE flag to cause the problem, or drop -j1 and leave the user to decide how many jobs to use.

I want to remember you that with modern multicore systems, forcing serial make is going to waste a lot of time and resources for users. To show some numbers:

lilypond: Thu Aug 28 00:35:36 2008: 13 minutes, 59 seconds
lilypond: Thu Aug 28 13:10:45 2008: 2 minutes, 55 seconds

the former was with -j1, the latter with -j8.

Thanks,
Diego

Comment 1 Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-09-15 21:11:45 UTC

fixed in 2.11.58

Comment 2 Marijn Schouten (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2008-10-31 13:32:18 UTC

I'm turning on -j1 again, because it still causes additional failures for doc building. I therefore do not trust that it works correctly even if it does not fail outright.