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| -rw-r--r-- | skel.ebuild | 16 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/skel.ebuild b/skel.ebuild index 8f8fe3970d18..ce262a9c5ea1 100644 --- a/skel.ebuild +++ b/skel.ebuild @@ -77,8 +77,9 @@ DEPEND="" #RDEPEND="" # Source directory; the dir where the sources can be found (automatically -# unpacked) inside ${WORKDIR}. S will get a default setting of ${WORKDIR}/${P} -# if you omit this line. +# unpacked) inside ${WORKDIR}. The default value for S is ${WORKDIR}/${P} +# If you don't need to change it, leave the S= line out of the ebuild +# to keep it tidy. S=${WORKDIR}/${P} src_compile() { @@ -102,16 +103,17 @@ src_compile() { # portage shortcut to the above ./configure statement: # # econf || die - # Note that econf will die on failure, but plase use econf || die + # Note that econf will die on failure, but please use econf || die # for consistency. # emake (previously known as pmake) is a script that calls the # standard GNU make with parallel building options for speedier # builds (especially on SMP systems). Try emake first. It might - # not work for some packages, in which case you'll have to resort - # to normal "make". - emake || die - #make || die + # not work for some packages, because some makefiles have bugs + # related to parallelism, in these cases, use emake -j1 to limit + # make to a single process. The -j1 is a visual clue to others + # that the makefiles have bugs that have been worked around. + emake || die "emake failed" } src_install() { |