Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:35:33 -0700 From: "Riley" <rileyjmc@pacbell.net> To: "Kris Kennaway" <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: RE: Buildworld fails Message-ID: <HEEELMCBPANKADCOBOFPCEAHHEAA.rileyjmc@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <20021019094409.GA93941@xor.obsecurity.org>
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> From: Kris Kennaway
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 2:44 AM
> > 1 error
> > *** Error code 2
>
> The fact that there's no actual error message shown indicates that
> you're doing make installworld with a -j option. This is not
> supported and as you have found is likely to fail.
>
> Kris
The lack of an error message did seem odd. Thanks for the heads up.
Is the Handbook out of date? According the Build World section:
<quote>
It is now possible to specify a -j option to make which will cause it to
spawn several simultaneous processes. This is most useful on multi-CPU
machines. However, since much of the compiling process is IO bound rather
than CPU bound it is also useful on single CPU machines.
On a typical single-CPU machine you would run:
# make -j4 buildworld
make(1) will then have up to 4 processes running at any one time. Empirical
evidence posted to the mailing lists shows this generally gives the best
performance benefit.
</quote>
Let me give it a try without `-j'.
Thanks again,
Riley
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