[Kmymoney-devel] build questions

[Jack]

On 2010.07.25 03:13, Thomas Baumgart wrote:
> on Sunday 25 July 2010 02:48:15 Jack wrote:
> > On 2010.07.24 20:29, Alvaro Soliverez wrote:
[snip]
>>>> Good to know.  I've always assumed a good "j" value is one more  
>>>> than the number of processors or cores you have.

> > > I have a Phenom x4, that's why.

> I have heard from people (Gentoo packagers - OK, they compile a lot)  
> who have a quad core engine that they use -j9 because they have  
> hyperthreading. So it's number of threads (or whatever the correct  
> term in CPU talk theses days is) plus one. And there must be a  
> diffence, because they had problems compiling with -j9 but not with  
> -j5 on the same box.

We may be getting a bit off topic, but my main box is Gentoo.  On the  
Gentoo forums, a common reply to compile problems is that you shouldn't  
even try to complain unless it fails with -j1 and with ccache turned  
off.