From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Oct 19 9:35:44 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1427B37B401 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:35:43 -0700 (PDT) Received: from aji.wilshire.net (worm.wilshire.net [64.161.77.242]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3B2A43E88 for ; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:35:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rileyjmc@pacbell.net) Received: from emilyd (emilyd.wilshire.net [10.100.123.20]) by aji.wilshire.net (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g9JGXUt2016119; Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:33:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from rileyjmc@pacbell.net) From: "Riley" To: "Kris Kennaway" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" Subject: RE: Buildworld fails Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2002 09:35:33 -0700 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2911.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 In-Reply-To: <20021019094409.GA93941@xor.obsecurity.org> Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > From: Kris Kennaway > Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 2:44 AM > > 1 error > > *** Error code 2 > > The fact that there's no actual error message shown indicates that > you're doing make installworld with a -j option. This is not > supported and as you have found is likely to fail. > > Kris The lack of an error message did seem odd. Thanks for the heads up. Is the Handbook out of date? According the Build World section: It is now possible to specify a -j option to make which will cause it to spawn several simultaneous processes. This is most useful on multi-CPU machines. However, since much of the compiling process is IO bound rather than CPU bound it is also useful on single CPU machines. On a typical single-CPU machine you would run: # make -j4 buildworld make(1) will then have up to 4 processes running at any one time. Empirical evidence posted to the mailing lists shows this generally gives the best performance benefit. Let me give it a try without `-j'. Thanks again, Riley To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message