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Date:      Thu, 8 Feb 2007 15:38:32 -0800
From:      "Josh Carroll" <josh.carroll@gmail.com>
To:        "Bill Moran" <wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Daniel Tourde <daniel.tourde@spray.se>
Subject:   Re: Intel Core Duo. SMP kernel but still only 50% load while using make on ports...
Message-ID:  <8cb6106e0702081538r6717ccadwe13d7f0c5b0ed5f5@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20070208180505.ba9b98b5.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com>
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> You know, it'd be cool if there were a knob in the ports framework that
> allowed port maintainers to specify this, something like PARALLEL_MAKE=yes
> in the Makefile ...
>
> Or is that a dumb idea for some reason I don't understand?

I personally don't think it's a dumb idea at all. The problem is the
sheer volume of ports out there. I don't see why the hooks couldn't be
put in place, though, and let the port maintainers add to it slowly.

Josh



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