Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 16:14:49 -0500 From: Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu> To: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net> Cc: asami@FreeBSD.ORG, ports@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ports lockfile? Message-ID: <20001219161449.B1119@altair.firepipe.net> In-Reply-To: <20001219113535.Q19572@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:35:35AM -0800 References: <20001219113535.Q19572@fw.wintelcom.net>
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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:35:35AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > Usually when doing an install I'll start building several ports in > at the same time The problem is that frequently the ports will > recurse into the same dependancy, and the two builds will clobber > each other. > > I tried to figure out some way for the ports to use the 'lockf' > utility on the port makefile in order to protect it, but I can't > seem to figure out how and where to use lockf. > > We'd need some pre-pre-pre make step to do this I imagine, anyone > want to try to do this? Is it a good idea? Yes, this is a good idea.. perhaps if I get time sometime soon I'll take a shot at it. I am familiar enough with ports/Mk/*.mk to try it. -- wca To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message
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