Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 11:52:08 -0400 From: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> To: Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9-Stable + Atom D510 Freeze Message-ID: <20130920155208.GA55143@in-addr.com> In-Reply-To: <20130920144928.GA50355@mail.laus.org> References: <523AFF46.29244.4657A1@lausts.acm.org> <523B91F2.8070004@heuristicsystems.com.au> <523C49A9.5719.289C1E@lausts.acm.org> <20130920143615.GA40029@in-addr.com> <20130920144928.GA50355@mail.laus.org>
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On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:49:28AM -0400, Thomas Laus wrote: > Gary Palmer [gpalmer@freebsd.org] wrote: > > > > When building kernel & world do you use the '-j' argument to do parallel > > builds? AFAIK thats not done by default, but it is for some ports. > > > Gary: > > I just use the system defaults when building anything. If there is a > '-j' argument passed to the compiler, I was not the one that did it. > Does this mean that the port building process needs to determine the > processor type in the configure stage? I only use portmaster to keep > the ports updated. I don't know of a global hook that will change the > compiler build flags in portmaster. Hi Tim, It's not a compiler flag, it's a make flag. make -j n will fork off up to n compilers to do the build. If you just do "make buildworld" then there is no parallel compilation. It used to be that ports had MAKE_JOBS_SAFE in the Makefile to mark that the port could be built using parallel compiles with the '-j' argument to make. It appears that the logic has been switched and now you have to mark them as MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE to say that parallel builds shouldn't be done, indicating that parallel builds are the default now (unless I'm misreading the code) You can try putting DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS=yes into /etc/make.conf to see if that stops the problem on port builds. Alternatively I think you could do portmaster -m DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS=yes <other options> However you'd have to do that each time you run portmaster. I think putting PM_MAKE_ARGS="DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS=yes" in your .portmasterrc may do the same thing (not tried it). Note: this is NOT a fix. If it works, it merely stops the ports builder from triggering the problem by not doing parallel compiles. The compiles will also take longer. Regards, Gary
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