jom is a general make replacement now

[Casper van Donderen]

On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:44 PM, Cristian Oneţ <onet.cristian at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

Jom normally auto-detects the amount of CPU's in the system and uses
this amount as its amount of jobs.

I believe I set EMERGE_MAKE_PROGRAM to also append the amount of jobs
and silent mode.
I'm not at home right now, but I believe my EMERGE_MAKE_PROGRAM is:
EMERGE_MAKE_PROGRAM=%KDEROOT%\dev-utils\bin\jom.exe -j8 -s