jom is a general make replacement now

[Cristian Oneţ]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:38 PM, Andre Heinecke <aheinecke at intevation.de> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Am Sonntag, 7. November 2010 23:00:25 schrieb Patrick Spendrin:
>> Ok, binaries from Christian have been uploaded & a new emerge target has
>> been added:
>> Please retry emerge -i --target=101-patched jom
>
> To give feedback here, the new version thats default now works great, it
> reduced our build times with msvc ~20%.
>
> Had a strange Problem with mingw though, during a large qt build i've killed
> emerge with control C and jom just kept building it although emerge and the
> controlprocess was dead.
>
> When a build breaks i get the message (this is with msvc):
> QProcess: Destroyed while process is still running.
>
> command failed with exit code 2
>
> command failed with exit code 2
>
> command failed with exit code 2
> emerge fatal error: while running make cmd: jom.exe -j8 VERBOSE=1

Could you provide a short description on how to use jom (or a link to
where is this described)? I have emerged jom but make only launches
one compiler process.

Thanks,
Cristian