Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:25:33 -0600 (CST) From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net> To: =?ISO646-US?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=3Frgrav?= <des@des.no>, Gary Thorpe <gthorpe@myrealbox.com> Cc: Wesley Shields <wxs@csh.rit.edu>, Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com>, Brandon Flowers <flowersster@gmail.com>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ??? Message-ID: <2209162.1137777933811.JavaMail.root@vms075.mailsrvcs.net>
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>From: =?ISO646-US?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=3Frgrav?= <des@des.no> >Gary Thorpe <gthorpe@myrealbox.com> writes: >> This effectively means that you cannot take advantage of SMP to >> compile FreeBSD's ports collection. That sounds like a big >> limitation...especially for people trying to speed up bulk builds. > >We cannot be held responsible for race conditions in the Makefiles of >third-party software. Well, maybe we can then build multiple ports in parallel. I guess the way to do it would be to run the top-level make with -j but then disable it when calling the makefiles of the individual ports. Not that I have any idea how to actually do that. -SB
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