From owner-freebsd-ports Sun Jun 20 2:37:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C02EE14C9B for ; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 02:37:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id FAA07952; Sun, 20 Jun 1999 05:38:55 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 04:38:54 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Chris Piazza Cc: ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where are the README.html files in ports when cvs? In-Reply-To: <19990619151452.B381@norn.ca.eu.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message