From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Jan 23 13:55: 8 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from guru.mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id CCC6137B404 for ; Wed, 23 Jan 2002 13:55:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 25709 invoked by uid 100); 23 Jan 2002 21:54:51 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15439.12586.779949.359856@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:54:50 -0600 To: Matthew Whelan Cc: Kent Stewart , Mike Tancsa , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: make -j4 world In-Reply-To: References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020122210418.013a8dc0@192.168.0.12> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.44 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.4-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Matthew Whelan types: > >make -j4 world > Isn't this strongly disrecommended anyway? Admittedly this is apparently > dying in making depend, but world installs too and from the handbook: > > Note: If you specified variables on the make buildworld command line, you > must specify the same variables in the make installworld command line. This > does not necessarily hold true for other options; for example, -j must never > be used with installworld. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ From /usr/src/Makefile: world: upgrade_checks [...] @cd ${.CURDIR}; ${MAKE} buildworld @cd ${.CURDIR}; ${MAKE} -B installworld and the make(1) man page: -B Try to be backwards compatible by executing a single shell per command and by executing the commands to make the sources of a dependency line in sequence. This is turned on by default unless -j is used. In other words, the authors expected world to be made with the -j flag, and tried to make sure it would work properly. I know it has for me at times in the past. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message