From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 19 15:46:02 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5217016A4BF for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:46:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.speakeasy.net (mail7.speakeasy.net [216.254.0.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8A2043FE5 for ; Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:46:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdarnold@buddydog.org) Received: (qmail 18227 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2003 22:46:01 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO buddydog.org) ([66.92.76.225]) (envelope-sender ) by mail7.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Aug 2003 22:46:01 -0000 Message-ID: <3F42A8A8.2020409@buddydog.org> Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:46:00 -0400 From: Jonathan Arnold User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, ja MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Charles Howse References: <001c01c36693$68057680$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <001c01c36693$68057680$04fea8c0@moe> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make buildworld failure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 22:46:02 -0000 Charles Howse wrote: >>>cd /usr/src >>>make buildworld (drat, I should have done make -j4 buildworld!) >> >>Actually, no, don't do the -j4 - I think that's why it worked. >>I was fiddling with the -j flag once and ran into a bunch of >>problems, when it was pointed out that this isn't a "supported" >>way of doing a make buildworld. I stopped using it and all was >>well. > > Very interesting. > On page 490 of "FreeBSD Unleashed" it references the -j4 parameter as a > way to speed up the make buildworld process by spawning multiple > simultaneous processes. > > The same thing is referenced in Chapter 20 of the FreeBSD Handbook. > > Is this now depreciated? In fact, "FreeBSD Unleashed" is where I first saw it, and got caught by it. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) http://www.TheWargamer.com || http://www.iSimulacrum.com