Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2006 18:45:33 +0900 From: Eric Kjeldergaard <kjelderg@gmail.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Ashok Shrestha <ashok.shrestha@gmail.com>, Brandon Flowers <flowersster@gmail.com> Subject: Re: speed up port compiling using RAM (tmpfs) ??? Message-ID: <200601151845.39425.kjelderg@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com> References: <79e2026f0601142345x1a9269bdl3153d1bb110be08d@mail.gmail.com>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] 日曜日 15 1月 2006 16:45、Ashok Shrestha さんは書きました: > Hi, > > I am curious to know if there is a way to compile a port such as X11 > or KDE faster. > > I know in Gentoo, you can mount a part of RAM and compile in that. > This substantially decreases the compile time. Reference: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage_with_tmpfs > > Does anyone know how to do this in Freebsd? Sure. Read the ports(7) man page paying special attention to the WRKDIRPREFIX variable. Then man mount_mfs and mdconfig. Those should do the trick. Eric -- The signature is a location used to give a personalised feel to each E-mail without having to personalise each E-mail. [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQBDyhnDSMnO3Fce5JgRAmdGAJsEYYOgy0tr+M5HMl9O3xKfLU9IEQCghhR/ Uar+K+9wd3y/GNcHhj9sxjU= =U+OS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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