Date: Fri, 20 Sep 2013 13:06:52 -0400 From: "illoai@gmail.com" <illoai@gmail.com> To: Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> Cc: ml-freebsd-stable <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org>, Thomas Laus <lausts@acm.org> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 9-Stable + Atom D510 Freeze Message-ID: <CAHHBGkpECMXnrUKC6zuxRMNT6KD2QokvXM8KQeW_L3QekFtLgA@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20130920155208.GA55143@in-addr.com> 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> <20130920155208.GA55143@in-addr.com>
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On 20 September 2013 11:52, Gary Palmer <gpalmer@freebsd.org> wrote: > 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. > I believe that both world/kernel & ports will honour MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=1 #(in /etc/make.conf) which should restrict all builds to 1 "parallel" thread, yes? -- --
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