Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:08:05 -0700 From: Brian Whalen <brian@brianwhalen.net> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HEADS UP multi processor compilations and packages Message-ID: <49C92F95.3090601@brianwhalen.net> In-Reply-To: <1237901632.1849.19.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> References: <1237901632.1849.19.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
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Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Two days ago, I have checked in probably most requested feature of last > few years. Ports framework now systematically supports building ports on > multiple processing cores. It is achieved by passing -jX flag to make(1) > running on vendor code. Of course not all ports handle this well, > experimental run on pointyhat with this flag globally enabled turned up > shy of 400 failures. Because of that, the feature was designed as a > whitelist. Individual ports need to be enabled, and indeed, fellow > developers took on and already started adding required declarations to > popular ports like Firefox and others. > > > On a related topic, I wonder what the cost would be of acquiring enough hardware so that the probability of actually getting a package with portupgrade -aP would go up substantially. I imagine the time required for the build servers to build packages with the above mod would go down substantially. Brian
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