2 files changed, 40 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/eclass/multiprocessing.eclass b/eclass/multiprocessing.eclass
index 534b35c56b96..06e004aa1669 100644
--- a/eclass/multiprocessing.eclass
+++ b/eclass/multiprocessing.eclass
@@ -86,9 +86,10 @@ makeopts_loadavg() {
 	# This assumes the first .* will be more greedy than the second .*
 	# since POSIX doesn't specify a non-greedy match (i.e. ".*?").
 	local lavg=$(echo " $* " | sed -r -n \
-		-e 's:.*[[:space:]](-l|--load-average[=[:space:]])[[:space:]]*([0-9]+|[0-9]+\.[0-9]+)[^0-9.]*:\2:p' \
-		-e 's:.*[[:space:]](-l|--load-average)[[:space:]].*:999:p')
-	echo ${lavg:-1}
+		-e 's:.*[[:space:]](-l|--(load-average|max-load)[=[:space:]])[[:space:]]*([0-9]+|[0-9]+\.[0-9]+).*:\3:p' \
+		-e 's:.*[[:space:]](-l|--(load-average|max-load))[[:space:]].*:999:p')
+	# Default to 999 since the default is to not use a load limit.
+	echo ${lavg:-999}
 }
 
 # @FUNCTION: multijob_init
diff --git a/eclass/tests/multiprocessing_makeopts_loadavg.sh b/eclass/tests/multiprocessing_makeopts_loadavg.sh
new file mode 100755
index 000000000000..12f9d01f9fcd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/eclass/tests/multiprocessing_makeopts_loadavg.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+#!/bin/bash
+# Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
+# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
+# $Id$
+
+source tests-common.sh
+
+inherit multiprocessing
+
+test-makeopts_loadavg() {
+	local exp=$1; shift
+	tbegin "makeopts_loadavg($*) == ${exp}"
+	local act=$(makeopts_loadavg "$@")
+	[[ ${act} == "${exp}" ]]
+	tend $? "Got back: ${act}"
+}
+
+tests=(
+	999 "-j"
+	999 "-l"
+	999 ""
+	9 "-l9 -w"
+	9 "-l 9 -w-j4"
+	3 "-l3 -j 4 -w"
+	5 "--load-average=5"
+	6 "--load-average 6"
+	7 "-l3 --load-average 7 -w"
+	4 "-j1 -j 2 --load-average 3 --load-average=4"
+	3 " --max-load=3 -x"
+	8 "     -l        			8     "
+)
+for (( i = 0; i < ${#tests[@]}; i += 2 )) ; do
+	test-makeopts_loadavg "${tests[i]}" "${tests[i+1]}"
+done
+
+texit