Test: wxWidgets3.1 3.1.5-2
Hamish McIntyre-Bhatty
cygwin@hamishmb.com
Tue Feb 24 12:20:56 GMT 2026
On 23/02/2026 22:59, Jon Turney wrote:
> 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
I think I was using make instead of cygmake for the first instance in
the script by accident - it's probably fine. Good to know I don't need
that option though.
Best,
Hamish
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