How to force gentoo to build with a -j 4 ??

revoohc · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 12 Oct 2002 Posts: 128

Hello Everyone,

I'm trying to install gentoo for the first time. I have a quad pentium pro system that I am trying to install it on and I would like to have gentoo build everything with a make -j 4 inorder to make sure that it uses all 4 of my cpus. Would someone be kind enough to let me know if there is a simple way to do this.

Thanks,

revoohc

px · Guru Joined: 26 Sep 2002 Posts: 497 Location: Metz, France

I think it's in /etc/make.conf
Under the cflag, add -j 4

I'm not sure at all
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fghellar · Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2002 4:19 pm Post subject:

This is set in /etc/make.globals as MAKEOPTS="-j2". To override it, edit /etc/make.conf and add MAKEOPTS="-j4". BTW, if you have 4 CPUs, set it to -j5.
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crashman · Posted: Sun Oct 13, 2002 2:33 am Post subject: optimum -jX

Is -j(X+1) usually best, where X=num of cpu's?