On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Rick Stevens wrote: > On 02/10/2014 12:09 PM, Robert P. J. Day issued this missive: > > > > grrrrrr ... following the instructions here: > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel > > > > on how to build a custom kernel (some of which is incorrect, more on > > that later), and builds keep failing at random places, i'm guessing > > because i have a hyperthreaded quad-core laptop, and the "make -j8" is > > simply tripping over itself in arbitrary places. > > > > what's the easiest way to specify a single-threaded build? yes, it > > will take forever, but it will be nice to verify that that's the > > problem. > > > > thanks. > > > > rday > r > Theoretically you could do > > MAKEFLAGS="-j 1" rpmbuild blah-blah > > gmake looks for the environment variable "MAKEFLAGS". Most reasonable > makefiles do "MAKEFLAGS+=other-specific-flags", so it should honor it. > Keep in minthd that if there are multiple "-j" variables to gmake, it will > only honor the LAST one specified. YMMV. hmmmm ... nope, i started a new build and i can already see: + make -s ARCH=x86_64 V=1 -j8 bzImage still pawing through kernel.spec to see where i can override this. rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Ottawa, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca Twitter: http://twitter.com/rpjday LinkedIn: http://ca.linkedin.com/in/rpjday ======================================================================== -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
