>> A year or so ago, building with make -j >1 was advised against >>due to the >>potential to produce spurious build failures, etc. Has that >>changed? The build >>time savings is attractive, but if there hasn't been any testing, >>best to stick >>to -j1 for now? > > The only build scripts where I limit NUMJOBS=-j1: > > dependencies/avahi-tqt/avahi-tqt.SlackBuild > libraries/pytdeextensions/pytdeextensions.SlackBuild > tdebindings/tdebindings.SlackBuild > > For everything else: > > if [ "$NUMJOBS" = "" ]; then > NUMJOBS="`grep -c '^processor' /proc/cpuinfo`" > NUMJOBS=$(($NUMJOBS + 2)) > export NUMJOBS="-j${NUMJOBS}" > fi > > Darrell The build farm builds everything on 8-core machines with parallel jobs allowed, and I haven't seen any failures. Tim