From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 15 20:00:03 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2C4E21065670 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:00:03 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@reiteration.net) Received: from anchor-post-3.mail.demon.net (anchor-post-3.mail.demon.net [195.173.77.134]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DDB908FC17 for ; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:00:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from potato.growveg.org ([62.49.247.163]) by anchor-post-3.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69) id 1PzZne-0007hh-o6 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:20:58 +0000 Message-ID: <4D7FBC0E.5020302@reiteration.net> Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:20:46 +0000 From: John User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.14) Gecko/20110302 Lightning/1.0b2 Thunderbird/3.1.8 ThunderBrowse/3.3.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: can make -j be used for ports? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2011 20:00:03 -0000 Hello freebsd-questions, I am no expert on make, so, here goes: Can -j options be used for make when building ports? I have an AMD X2 6000+ so presumably I'd use -j3 if this is possible. I know from the docs that -j is not recommended for make installkernel or installworld - but for some ports particularly the metaports I'd like to specify it if only to make the process faster. I'd like to use -j for portsonly and perhaps specify on the commandline when rebuilding the OS from source Is this possible or am I being unreasonable, or both, or not? thanks, -- John - lists@reiteration.net