[Nix-dev] Re: make -j<n> howto?

[Arie Middelkoop]

Eelco Dolstra wrote:
> (Undoubtedly Gentoo people regularly build packages with specific -j 
> flags, so they probably know how much breakage it causes...)

I'm a Gentoo user who updates frequently from the official portage tree, 
using -j 3. I never noticed make problems due to race conditions, 
although I'm not sure if I would be able to recognize one.

Those few times that builds failed, I never needed concurrency for an 
explanation.

Arie