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Subject: Re: portupgrade and make options
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Michael S wrote:
> Good day all,
> 
> I was wondering how to pass options from portupgrade
> to make. Say I wanted use -j4 for max. number of jobs.
> Where should I specify that? When building "world"
> it's possible to be done from the command line: make
> -j4 buildworld.
> 
> Also is athlon the correct CPUTYPE for AMD Sempron
> 3400?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Michael

Hi Michael,

The portupgrade system will honour any variables in /etc/make.conf. So 
if you want -j4 every make, just enter the line:

MAKEOPTS="-j4"

in /etc/make.conf.

HtH,
Adam J Richardson