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Date:      Sat, 22 Jul 2006 18:28:49 +0400 (MSD)
From:      Dmitry Morozovsky <marck@rinet.ru>
To:        "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de>
Cc:        freebsd-ports@freebsd.org, Sergey Matveychuk <sem@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: portinstall breaks with -m "-j 4"
Message-ID:  <20060722182659.U60076@woozle.rinet.ru>
In-Reply-To: <44C20B29.30308@gmx.de>
References:  <44C1F68E.80601@gmx.de> <44C2096E.4080701@FreeBSD.org> <44C20B29.30308@gmx.de>

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On Sat, 22 Jul 2006, [LoN]Kamikaze wrote:

L> > -j is not supported for ports.
L> > 
L> 
L> Well, it should be, with all the multi-core CPUs coming. And all other 
L> targets work fine with -j. It's solely the install target that's broken.
L> 
L> Is there any reason why it is not supported?

Too many software authors do not design their build invironment for parallel 
work.  Many ports broke in configure and/or build phases just with make -j2.

Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
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