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Cc: ports@freebsd.org, Pav Lucistnik <pav@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: parallel builds revisited
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Peter Jeremy wrote:
> Can anyone come up with either examples of ports that fall into the
> second category above or counter-examples to my first paragraph?

I have used 'make -j' for quite some time, and to my experience it either works or doesn't. I've never seen a port that works sometimes.