how can i tell rpmbuild to *not* parallelize make during the build?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 10 Feb 2014, Tom H wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 10, 2014 at 3:09 PM, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday at crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> >
> > on how to build a custom kernel (some of which is incorrect, more on
> > that later), and builds keep failing at random places, i'm guessing
> > because i have a hyperthreaded quad-core laptop, and the "make -j8" is
> > simply tripping over itself in arbitrary places.
> >
> > what's the easiest way to specify a single-threaded build? yes, it
> > will take forever, but it will be nice to verify that that's the
> > problem.
>
> "%_smp_mflags -j1" in "~/.rpmmacros".

  ah, thank you ... still in the midst of much reading.

rday


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