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Date:      Tue, 15 Mar 2011 19:20:46 +0000
From:      John <lists@reiteration.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   can make -j be used for ports?
Message-ID:  <4D7FBC0E.5020302@reiteration.net>

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Hello freebsd-questions,

I am no expert on make, so, here goes:

Can -j options be used for make when building ports? I have an AMD X2
6000+ so presumably I'd use -j3 if this is possible. I know from the
docs that -j is not recommended for make installkernel or installworld -
but for some ports particularly the metaports I'd like to specify it if
only to make the process faster. I'd like to use -j for portsonly and
perhaps specify on the commandline when rebuilding the OS from source

Is this possible or am I being unreasonable, or both, or not?

thanks,

-- 
John - lists@reiteration.net



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