On 18/02/2026 19:11, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
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I'm now building again. One thing to note is I'm wondering how to do
parallel make without specifying MAKEOPTS in the cygport file. I know
this is worse for debugging but it saves a lot of time.
If I specify "MAKEOPTS="-j12" cygport [...]" it has no effect, but it
also seems to have no effect if I run "export MAKEOPTS="-j12"" then it
also has no effect. Is there anything else I can try?
cygport sets MAKEOPTS to -j $(nproc + 1) (if no value is given using
cygport's own -j option) and also passes that to make when invoked via
cygmake, so you shouldn't need to do anything!
It certainly spends a while grinding away with 100% CPU utilization for me.
[1] https://cygwin.github.io/cygport/cygport_conf.html#MAKEOPTS
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