On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 15:33:21 +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > > I am using the -j option for the first time now. I'm updating KDE. It > > seems to work fine. It doesn't scroll all the stuff like with a > > regular emerges but this new rig is so fast, I can't read it anyway. > > I did have a package to fail and it spit out the error for me to > > read. > > You don't need that if you have MAKEOPTS set in your make.conf, which > is preferred. The -j option of emerge emerges multiple packages, while > with MAKEOPTS set to "-j4" or whatever does a parallel build in the > same package (meaning compiling multiple source files at the same time).
And how many CPU cores are used during the configure and install stages? Using --jobs does a better job of making use of your CPU because one package can use it fully for compiling while another is configuring. -- Neil Bothwick Beware of the opinion of someone without any facts.
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