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Subject: Re: [TEST] make -j patch [take 2]
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On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 Alexander@Leidinger.net wrote:

> Zitat von Harti Brandt <harti@freebsd.org>:
>
>> PK>>If yes: we have some ports which aren't -j safe, so this would violate
>> PK>>POLA.
>> PK>
>> PK>That is what "make -B" is for.
>>
>> Or .NOTPARALLEL
>
> I'm not talking about /usr/ports/category/port/Makefile, I'm talking about
> /usr/ports/category/port/work/tarball_dir/**/Makefile. We don't have
> control about those Makefiles.
>
> As much as I like a flag in the Makefile of a port which indicates
> that a port can't be build with -j, we don't have this and the last time
> this topic was discussed there was a strong objection to something like
> this.
>
> So this change may break procedures which worked so far.

How? If you specify -j on the port's make the -j gets passed down to all 
sub-makes via MAKEFLAGS and they use it. The difference is just that the 
overall number of jobs started is now limited by the original -j.

harti