Hello there Just for the record: I was able to solve the problem!!
I created a separate environment file in /etc/portage/env. The content of this file is: -8<------------------------------- CFLAGS="-pipe " CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS} " MAKEOPTS="-j1 " -8<------------------------------- The CFLAGS normally is "-02 -pipe -march=k8 " and the job count for make is 4. I guess I can further tune the process now. -- Greetings Elias