Date: Sun, 27 Dec 2009 17:40:52 -0000 From: "Simon Griffiths" <simon.griffiths@tenenbaum.co.uk> To: "'Warren Block'" <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: RE: Issues with make -j option on ports Message-ID: <00c901ca871b$bc41b510$34c51f30$@griffiths@tenenbaum.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912271024100.35018@wonkity.com> References: <00c101ca8715$75426930$5fc73b90$@griffiths@tenenbaum.co.uk> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0912271024100.35018@wonkity.com>
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Hello, > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: > > > I seem to get errors with quite a few ports if I use the make -j > option. > > Building with multiple jobs is part of the ports system for several > months now. See the MAKE_JOBS variables in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. > Overriding that with -j is going to try to force ports that aren't > multiple-job-safe, probably causing the problems you're seeing. > > The preferred number of jobs defaults to the number of CPUs. That > can be overridden with MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER. Ahh, that'll be where I'm going wrong then. Thank you very much :) Is this number only be overridden on the command line e.g. make -DMAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=8 install clean... or is there a file I could put this in, I'm thinking make.conf in /etc ? > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Thanks very much Warren, Si
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