>> I find that if a make fails first time, but completes (or gets further ) on >> second run it is due to some race condition where you have multiple jobs >> and a new job thread is dependent on something that hasn't completed. >> The simplest way around this is to flag the make with -j1 > >FWIW I've never had a problem compiling gcc with make -j4 >Also, if you read his script he doesn't use multiple jobs when he runs: >make -k check >
ACTUALLY - MAKEFLAGS set to 8 in my Root .bash_profile to make sure It was always in play. Race condition thing though may apply. I'm using a REAL PC now, but even when I use a Virtual MAchine I generally set 2 or more processes and set MAKE Flags accordingly. >> If you are having trouble with slow builds then have a look at top on your >> host system and see if anything is eating CPU and/or memory. >> I have had problems with polkitd and nautilus on Ubuntu (bad pulseaudio >> setup) >> Chrome is also a mem/CPU hog, especially if flash is enabled > >Are you compiling in a virtual machine? If so, perhaps it is not making >all the system's resources available? > >Andy Not now I'm not - I kind of got tired of waiting and configured my fastest machine for dual boot Win7/Slackware (32bit for making 32 bit LFS) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page