From owner-freebsd-ports Sat Jun 19 15:14:57 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Received: from norn.ca.eu.org (cr965240-b.abtsfd1.bc.wave.home.com [24.113.19.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 655CE14DA2 for ; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:14:54 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cpiazza@norn.ca.eu.org) Received: by norn.ca.eu.org (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 4D7949A; Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:14:52 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 15:14:52 -0700 From: Chris Piazza To: Chris Piazza Cc: Alfred Perlstein , ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: where are the README.html files in ports when cvs? Message-ID: <19990619151452.B381@norn.ca.eu.org> References: <19990619151151.A381@norn.ca.eu.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <19990619151151.A381@norn.ca.eu.org>; from Chris Piazza on Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 03:11:51PM -0700 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD norn.ca.eu.org 4.0-CURRENT Sender: owner-freebsd-ports@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 03:11:51PM -0700, Chris Piazza wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 04:16:20PM -0500, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > > > > How come after doing an install of the ports collection during a fresh > > install I get those nifty (and mighty handy) README.html files > > in the directories, but I don't get them when I use CVSup to grab > > ports? > > I personally delete them after I fresh install a system but here > is how you make them: > > You can create them with a `make readmes' in the port directory. > a `make readme' in a single port directory creates it for that, port too. > > > > > One more thing, why don't we enable passing the makes a flag > > to specify how many makes we would like to have concurrant, something > > like NBUILDJOBS=n to pass make a -jn flag. Ports could be > > marked for parralell builds via a define... that way dependancies > > that aren't -j safe won't be compiled that way... > > MAKE_ARGS="-j 8" make all will do what you want, save the flag to > not use parallel builds if the port doesn't support it. reply to myself because I sent this too early.... Are there many ports that don't build well with -jn, ie. is this worth the trouble? :) -Chris -- cpiazza@home.net OR cpiazza@FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD: The power to serve! http://www.FreeBSD.ORG To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message