From owner-freebsd-ports Thu Oct 12 19:17:14 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7681237B503 for ; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e9D2HDM26497 for ports@freebsd.org; Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:17:13 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 12 Oct 2000 19:17:13 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: ports@freebsd.org Subject: making concurrant builds safe. Message-ID: <20001012191713.E272@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.4i Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org If anyone has time, I had a nifty idea to protect concurrant building of ports: It might make sense to use the lockf(1) utility to make sure that two ports that started to build at the same time and had the same dependancy don't attempt to build the same dependancy at the same time? I think a simple lockf on the makefile would be enough to support that. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message