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Date: Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:25:33 -0600 (CST)
From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@verizon.net>
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Subject: Re: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???
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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