On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 17:23:40 +0100 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 2 Aug 2009 09:20:37 -0400, David Relson wrote: > > > I've had trouble building dev-util/duma and discovered this morning > > that -j2 was the culprit. duma's build compiles and runs > > createconf.c in order to create duma_config.h which is needed by > > dumapp.cpp. With -j2, the cpp compilation is starting before > > createconf finishes running and this causes the emerge to die. > > > > How does one set a special MAKEOPTS for a particular package? > > echo 'MAKEOPTS="-j1"' >/etc/portage/env/dev-util/duma
Exactly what I was looking for! Thanks Neil. Regards, David