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Date:      Sun, 2 Apr 2006 22:21:57 -0400
From:      Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
To:        Andrew McNaughton <andrew@scoop.co.nz>
Cc:        freebsd-smp@freebsd.org, Olaf Klein <ok@monkeytower.net>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Subject:   Re: smp and portupgrade
Message-ID:  <20060403022157.GA56932@xor.obsecurity.org>
In-Reply-To: <20060402204922.G18985@a2.scoop.co.nz>
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On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 08:57:30PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote:

> It would be nice if the ports system itself were multi-thread clean.=20
> Presumably we'd want a flag in each appropriate port's makefile which=20
> enabled a multi-threaded build where this is known to work.
>=20
> Equally, it would be nice if portupgrade were able to work on separate=20
> ports in parallel where dependency structures allow for it.
>=20
> Are there any fundamental reasons why such things couldn't work?

No..just a lot of work needed to make it happen.

Kris

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