From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 12 08:45:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4CB31065673 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:45:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) Received: from mxin.vub.ac.be (mxin.vub.ac.be [134.184.129.112]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C9B28FC12 for ; Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:45:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jcigar@ulb.ac.be) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AlUBAGmvQUmkD30E/2dsb2JhbAAIzyKCew Received: from bebif01.ulb.ac.be (HELO [10.0.0.194]) ([164.15.125.4]) by smtp.vub.ac.be with ESMTP; 12 Dec 2008 09:45:46 +0100 From: Julien Cigar To: Bernt Hansson In-Reply-To: <4941A0DD.7060803@bah.homeip.net> References: <4be2da2e0812062344y26eddcc9sf589531d10c71a1c@mail.gmail.com> <20081207093713.O5433@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207082932.04a7cf16@scorpio> <11167f520812070853i3b6fa6dei6e5c71669416470@mail.gmail.com> <20081207191727.V1610@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081207193517.GA20905@laverenz.de> <20081207121431.5dcb37f9@gom.home> <1228733482.4495.14.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <20081211122714.W4172@wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl> <20081211071914.278ae942@scorpio> <20081211133632.114d77c7.freebsd@edvax.de> <1229002806.2749.51.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> <4941A0DD.7060803@bah.homeip.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 09:46:17 +0100 Message-Id: <1229071577.2753.3.camel@frodon.be-bif.ulb.ac.be> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.22.3.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why FreeBSD not popular on hardware vendors X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 08:45:47 -0000 On Fri, 2008-12-12 at 00:23 +0100, Bernt Hansson wrote: > Julien Cigar said the following on 2008-12-11 14:40: > > - Altough ports are fantastic, building things like OpenOffice or ... is > > just inhuman, especially when you cannot use -j for building ports (but > > it's being resolved I think). > > Of course you can use -j to build ports. > > Just cd to/your/port make -j8 install (clean) > With portupgrade you use -m -j8 > I'm not sure about this, as there is just a project in titled "Allowing for parallel builds in the FreeBSD Ports" on http://www.freebsd.org/projects/summerofcode-2008.html ... ? Every time I tried to build a port with -j it failed .. -- Julien Cigar Belgian Biodiversity Platform http://www.biodiversity.be Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB) Campus de la Plaine CP 257 Bâtiment NO, Bureau 4 N4 115C (Niveau 4) Boulevard du Triomphe, entrée ULB 2 B-1050 Bruxelles Mail: jcigar@ulb.ac.be @biobel: http://biobel.biodiversity.be/person/show/471 Tel : 02 650 57 52