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Date:      Sun, 15 Jan 2006 10:34:49 +0100
From:      Victor Balada Diaz <victor@bsdes.net>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ???
Message-ID:  <20060115093449.GA655@pato.euesrg02.net>
In-Reply-To: <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:45:30AM -0500, Ashok Shrestha wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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?

You should take a look at mdconfig(8) and ports(7). With mdconfig
you create the ram-based disk and with WRKDIRPREFIX you tell the
ports to use that disk instead of the default workdir.

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