Date: Sat, 22 Jul 2006 13:25:29 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Sergey Matveychuk <sem@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: portinstall breaks with -m "-j 4" Message-ID: <44C20B29.30308@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <44C2096E.4080701@FreeBSD.org> References: <44C1F68E.80601@gmx.de> <44C2096E.4080701@FreeBSD.org>
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Sergey Matveychuk wrote: > [LoN]Kamikaze wrote: >> When a port installs dependencies prior to building and the -j flag is set for make, portupgrade somehow breaks installing dependencies. If I simply do >> >> # cd /usr/ports/category/port >> # make install -j 4 >> >> it works fine, but the command >> >> # portinstall category/port -m '-j 4' >> >> does not work if dependencies have to be installed. I have tried to get some insight in this and it seems that the ports depended on simply head to the do-install target, omitting things like do-extract, do-patch and do-build. >> >> The cause is a mystery to me, though. > > -j is not supported for ports. > Well, it should be, with all the multi-core CPUs coming. And all other targets work fine with -j. It's solely the install target that's broken. Is there any reason why it is not supported?
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