Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 19:07:00 +1030 From: "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor@gsoft.com.au> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com>, Brandon Flowers <flowersster@gmail.com> Subject: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ??? Message-ID: <200601151907.01027.doconnor@gsoft.com.au> In-Reply-To: <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com> References: <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com>
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--nextPart1838399.n5YTgtV7IJ Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline On Sunday 15 January 2006 18:15, Ashok Shrestha wrote: > I am curious to know if there is a way to compile a port such as X11 > or KDE faster. > > I know in Gentoo, you can mount a part of RAM and compile in that. > This substantially decreases the compile time. Reference: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage_with_tmpfs > > Does anyone know how to do this in Freebsd? Make a RAM drive using mdconfig and the mount it somewhere. Then put WRKDIRPREFIX=3D/path/to/md in /etc/make.conf =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart1838399.n5YTgtV7IJ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDygms5ZPcIHs/zowRAoWSAKCgI0+mXstj03gNMQkZG1qUyGOJQACfdTFI Db/WXgfeSgHRCn6bd/7c2Zc= =VxlU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1838399.n5YTgtV7IJ--
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