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

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revoohc · Post by **revoohc** » Sat Oct 12, 2002 3:12 pm

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 · Post by px » Sat Oct 12, 2002 3:57 pm

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

I'm not sure at all

fghellar · Post by **fghellar** » Sat Oct 12, 2002 4:19 pm

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.

crashman · Post by **crashman** » Sun Oct 13, 2002 2:33 am

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

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

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

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