From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 27 23:18:40 2009 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 D845D10656D9; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:18:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (rachie.is-a-geek.net [66.230.99.27]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BABB8FC21; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:18:39 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net) Received: from localhost (mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net [192.168.2.101]) by mail.rachie.is-a-geek.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 434E5AFC1FE; Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:18:39 -0900 (AKST) From: Mel To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 14:18:38 -0900 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.10 References: <20090125214457.GA4568@phenom.cordula.ws> <200901252241.05483.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> <20090126181421.GA1472@phenom.cordula.ws> In-Reply-To: <20090126181421.GA1472@phenom.cordula.ws> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200901271418.39080.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Doug Barton , cpghost Subject: Re: make -jN build with portmaster 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: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 23:18:41 -0000 On Monday 26 January 2009 09:14:21 cpghost wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:41:05PM -0900, Mel wrote: > > On Sunday 25 January 2009 20:48:22 Doug Barton wrote: > > > Josh Carroll wrote: > > > > What I do is the following via make.conf, > > > > > > I think this is a good solution. Given that incredible foot-shooting > > > power of the -j stuff I am not inclined to add something like this to > > > portmaster, not even as an "advanced" option. > > Yes, I understand the problem with that. The make.conf solution > is good enough for now. ;) > > > Given the fact that the build target is presumably -j safe (as far as the > > ports system is concerned), it would be nice to have a BUILD_JOBS in > > Mk/bsd.port.mk similar to INDEX_JOBS that is already there. Port > > maintainers then can also set WITHOUT_PARALLEL (or USE_PARALLEL=NO etc) > > for ports that break by themselves (f.e. www/lynx, editors/vim). > > portmaster should then have no problem setting BUILD_JOBS on request. > > That would be absolutely perfect! > > At least, big ports (www/firefox3 etc...) that take a long time to > compile could use USE_PARALLEL=YES right now (or the solution with > make.conf) if they are safe with -jN. The gazillion smallish ports > could come later when maintainers have some time to follow up, but > they are not really all that critical. PR Filed: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=131065 -- Mel