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Date:      Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:38:54 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Chris Piazza <cpiazza@home.net>
Cc:        ports@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: where are the README.html files in ports when cvs?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990620043724.14320a-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <19990619151452.B381@norn.ca.eu.org>

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On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Chris Piazza wrote:

> On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 03:11:51PM -0700, Chris Piazza wrote:
> > On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 04:16:20PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > > 
> > > How come after doing an install of the ports collection during a fresh
> > > install I get those nifty (and mighty handy) README.html files
> > > in the directories, but I don't get them when I use CVSup to grab
> > > ports?
> > 
> > I personally delete them after I fresh install a system but here
> > is how you make them: 
> > 
> > You can create them with a `make readmes' in the port directory.
> > a `make readme' in a single port directory creates it for that, port too.
> > 
> > > 
> > > One more thing, why don't we enable passing the makes a flag
> > > to specify how many makes we would like to have concurrant, something
> > > like NBUILDJOBS=n to pass make a -jn flag.  Ports could be
> > > marked for parralell builds via a define... that way dependancies
> > > that aren't -j safe won't be compiled that way...
> > 
> > MAKE_ARGS="-j 8" make all will do what you want, save the flag to
> > not use parallel builds if the port doesn't support it.
> 
> reply to myself because I sent this too early....
> 
> Are there many ports that don't build well with -jn, ie. is this worth
> the trouble? :)

Tons of programs out there aren't make -jn safe.  It seems that lately
things have gotten better, but even lynx-ssl won't compile sometimes
with a -jn.

And thank you very much for the pointers on how to get the Readmes :)

-Alfred



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