Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2018 13:41:00 +0000 (UTC) From: Mateusz Piotrowski <0mp@FreeBSD.org> To: doc-committers@freebsd.org, svn-doc-all@freebsd.org, svn-doc-head@freebsd.org Subject: svn commit: r52413 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special Message-ID: <201810291341.w9TDf0xS011291@repo.freebsd.org>
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Author: 0mp (ports committer) Date: Mon Oct 29 13:41:00 2018 New Revision: 52413 URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/52413 Log: Mention "race conditions" in the section about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE. The reason for this is to increase discoverability of MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE. Reviewed by: bcr, mat (previous version) Approved by: mat (mentor) Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17383 Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml ============================================================================== --- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml Mon Oct 29 09:18:42 2018 (r52412) +++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml Mon Oct 29 13:41:00 2018 (r52413) @@ -506,14 +506,15 @@ IGNORE= may not be redistributed because of licensing their available <acronym>CPU</acronym> power, allowing port builds to be faster and more effective.</para> - <para>This is achieved by passing <varname>-jX</varname> flag + <para>This is achieved by passing <literal>-jX</literal> flag to &man.make.1; running on vendor code. This is the default build behavior of ports. Unfortunately, not all ports handle parallel building well and it may be required to explicitly disable this feature by adding the <literal>MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes</literal> variable. It is used when a port is known to be broken with - <varname>-jX</varname>.</para> + <literal>-jX</literal> due to race conditions causing + intermittent build failures.</para> <important> <para>When setting <varname>MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE</varname>, it
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