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Subject: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???
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On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:49:29AM -0500, Gary Thorpe wrote:

> >-j is not safe to use with port builds since many ported software
> >contain race conditions in the build.
> >
> >Kris
>=20
> This effectively means that you cannot take advantage of SMP to compile=
=20
> FreeBSD's ports collection. That sounds like a big=20
> limitation...especially for people trying to speed up bulk builds.

Yeah, but what do you propose to do about it?  We have 14000 ports
that need to be inspected for build race conditions and fixed before
you can turn on -j by default.

Kris

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