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Date:      Mon, 2 Oct 2006 14:41:07 -0400
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Cc:        Robert Watson <rwatson@freebsd.org>, Astrodog <astrodog@gmail.com>, current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lockf in installworld -- not a good idea
Message-ID:  <200610021441.08126.jhb@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060929142405.GA5875@rambler-co.ru>
References:  <20060929141709.E70454@fledge.watson.org> <2fd864e0609290707t7e7d6e17g61a09ff5aa10ff3f@mail.gmail.com> <20060929142405.GA5875@rambler-co.ru>

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On Friday 29 September 2006 10:24, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:07:19AM -0500, Astrodog wrote:
> > Personally, I find it much, much more important to be able to do an
> > installworld from a "real" single user mode via NFS, than it is to support
> > -j. I don't think I've ever had a circumstance where I really needed make
> > installworld to finish quickly.
> > 
> This doesn't mean it's unused.  For example, our release engineers
> build releases on fast SMP machines, and "make release" can complete
> faster with -j on real SMP hardware.  This is btw how this bug was
> found in the first place.

I'd say it's a bug in src/release/Makefile. :)  It should use WORLD_FLAGS with 
buildworld and not with installworld.

-- 
John Baldwin



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