Test: wxWidgets3.1 3.1.5-2

Jon Turney jon.turney@dronecode.org.uk
Mon Feb 23 22:59:48 GMT 2026


On 18/02/2026 19:11, Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty wrote:
[...]
> 
> I'm now building again. One thing to note is I'm wondering how to do 
> parallel make without specifying MAKEOPTS in the cygport file. I know 
> this is worse for debugging but it saves a lot of time.
> 
> If I specify "MAKEOPTS="-j12" cygport [...]" it has no effect, but it 
> also seems to have no effect if I run "export MAKEOPTS="-j12"" then it 
> also has no effect. Is there anything else I can try?

cygport sets MAKEOPTS to -j $(nproc + 1) (if no value is given using 
cygport's own -j option) and also passes that to make when invoked via 
cygmake, so you shouldn't need to do anything!

It certainly spends a while grinding away with 100% CPU utilization for me.

[1] https://cygwin.github.io/cygport/cygport_conf.html#MAKEOPTS


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