Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 14:01:21 +0100 From: RW <list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Parallel Builds Message-ID: <200610191401.23753.list-freebsd-2004@morbius.sent.com> In-Reply-To: <200610191124.39379.mail@maxlor.com> References: <200610191124.39379.mail@maxlor.com>
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On Thursday 19 October 2006 10:24, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
>..
> o Mark the ports that allow parallel building by adding a new flag
> that can be used in ports makefiles, eg. PARALLEL_BUILDING=yes.
> With such a port, the build target would call, say
> "gmake -j${PARALLEL_NUM}" instead of just "gmake". PARALLEL_NUM
> would be set in /etc/make.conf. If it is undefined, the build
> target would fall back to the old behavior. I'll call this
> "micro-parallelism" for now.
>
> ...
> Disadvantages:
> - Each port would have to be marked with PARALLEL_BUILDING=yes
> individually. This means more work for the maintainers, and will
> mean that introduction of this feature will take time.
I suggested something like this, with the addition of something like
FORCE_PARALLEL_BUILDING=yes, so that individual users could easily experiment
and see which ports cause problems.
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