From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 17 22:24:48 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28B7816A990 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:24:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from ns1.jnielsen.net (ns1.jnielsen.net [69.55.238.237]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D39DA43D45 for ; Wed, 17 May 2006 22:24:47 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) Received: from c-68-59-28-54.hsd1.sc.comcast.net (jn@c-68-59-28-54.hsd1.sc.comcast.net [68.59.28.54]) (authenticated bits=0) by ns1.jnielsen.net (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id k4HMOkQN013067; Wed, 17 May 2006 15:24:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from lists@jnielsen.net) From: John Nielsen To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 17 May 2006 18:24:45 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <200605151112.33416.work@ashleymoran.me.uk> <20060515090018.4015d7e1.wmoran@collaborativefusion.com> In-Reply-To: X-Face: #X5#Y*q>F:]zT!DegL3z5Xo'^MN[$8k\[4^3rN~wm=s=Uw(sW}R?3b^*f1Wu*.<=?utf-8?q?of=5F4NrS=0A=09P*M/9CpxDo!D6?=)IY1w<9B1jB; tBQf[RU-R<,I)e"$q7N7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200605171824.46072.lists@jnielsen.net> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.88, clamav-milter version 0.87 on ns1.jnielsen.net X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: martinko Subject: Re: Please explain make -j to my little brain 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: Wed, 17 May 2006 22:24:48 -0000 On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:06, martinko wrote: > i remember from mailing lists there used to be a problem with using "-j" > while compiling kernel or world or ports or sth. is it resolved now pls? "make -j N" has never been a supported option for ports. It is supported for buildworld and buildkernel, but if something goes wrong with the build then the first thing you should do is try the build again without a -j flag. JN