Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 15:49:38 -0500 From: "Charles Howse" <chowse@charter.net> To: "'Jonathan Arnold'" <jdarnold@buddydog.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Make buildworld failure Message-ID: <001c01c36693$68057680$04fea8c0@moe> In-Reply-To: <3F42872B.6050002@buddydog.org>
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> > cd /usr/src > > make buildworld (drat, I should have done make -j4 buildworld!) > > Actually, no, don't do the -j4 - I think that's why it worked. > I was fiddling with the -j flag once and ran into a bunch of > problems, when it was pointed out that this isn't a "supported" > way of doing a make buildworld. I stopped using it and all was > well. Very interesting. On page 490 of "FreeBSD Unleashed" it references the -j4 parameter as a way to speed up the make buildworld process by spawning multiple simultaneous processes. The same thing is referenced in Chapter 20 of the FreeBSD Handbook. Is this now depreciated?home | help
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