Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2009 12:28:20 -0400 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@FreeBSD.org> To: pav@FreeBSD.org Cc: ports@FreeBSD.org, Niclas Zeising <niclas.zeising@gmail.com> Subject: Re: HEADS UP multi processor compilations for everyone Message-ID: <1237912100.1741.16.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <1237907945.1849.27.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> References: <1237901632.1849.19.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <49C8EE21.3080702@gmail.com> <1237906449.1849.25.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz> <1237906705.1741.13.camel@localhost> <1237907945.1849.27.camel@pav.hide.vol.cz>
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--=-c1t/YezlUwwW64tSKSbA Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 16:19 +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > Coleman Kane p=C3=AD=C5=A1e v =C3=BAt 24. 03. 2009 v 10:58 -0400: > > On Tue, 2009-03-24 at 15:54 +0100, Pav Lucistnik wrote: > > > Niclas Zeising p=C3=AD=C5=A1e v =C3=BAt 24. 03. 2009 v 15:28 +0100: > > >=20 > > > > Not to nitpick or be an annoyance, but you might want to document t= his=20 > > > > in ports(7) or make.conf(5) (or both) so it doesn't get lost in the= =20 > > > > mail-lists or if people are not reading ports@ > > >=20 > > > I will document it soon, thinking The Handbook would be best place. > > >=20 > >=20 > > Definitely add it to UPDATING too. This will allow people who typically > > do something like "make configure && make -j3" to now know that they >=20 > This would break very fast -- it's passing -j3 to port Makefile instead > of vendor Makefile. This has worked fine for me for countless years, except where the vendor's Makefiles were not parallel-safe. This has been my trick to get larger things (like mysql or xorg-server) to make in parallel. It *did* work. If this has changed, then it definitely warrants mention in UPDATING. >=20 > > don't have to. It will also allow others to know why ports compilation > > on their multi-core boxes suddenly uses a lot more CPU time. >=20 > Same CPU time, less wall time, more CPU utilization :) >=20 Thanks for the clarification... that's what I meant :) --=20 Coleman Kane --=-c1t/YezlUwwW64tSKSbA Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="signature.asc" Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (FreeBSD) iEYEABECAAYFAknJCiQACgkQcMSxQcXat5e+pwCeJheNsndARCP99bpeIpzqJgA6 DrAAniQHKv7R/XzA5Rr9hbTkGwiS1Ofo =GbTV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-c1t/YezlUwwW64tSKSbA--
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