Date: Sat, 3 Mar 2007 13:33:29 +0100 (CET) From: Christian Baer <christian.baer@uni-dortmund.de> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compiling ports with more than one job Message-ID: <esbpup$30u3$1@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> References: <es3lop$2emc$2@nermal.rz1.convenimus.net> <200702281044.16855.josh@tcbug.org>
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On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:44:16 -0600 Josh Paetzel wrote: > The issues with the config screen sounds like a bug, but one that is > unlikely to get fixed any time soon. You can avoid it by doing a > make config-recursive before building the port, but you're still > going to run in to the problem that ports are not guarranteed to > by -jX safe, some will work, some won't, and there's no way of > knowing without trying it. In general you can save yourself a lot of > headaches by not trying in the first place. I don't have a headache because the port didn't compile, but because compiling without -jX is *really* slow. SPARC CPUs are just slow (by today's standards). Therefore the wish to use all of them (in my case both) is a lot bigger than it would be for someone with an AMD64 5000+ to use both cores. Regards Chris
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