Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 18:32:57 +0200 From: "[LoN]Kamikaze" <LoN_Kamikaze@gmx.de> To: Robert Noland <rnoland@2hip.net> Cc: Benjamin Lutz <mail@maxlor.com>, ports@freebsd.org, pav@freebsd.org Subject: Re: parallel builds revisited Message-ID: <461E5F39.1030603@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <1176391950.1820.3.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com> References: <200704100452.40574.mail@maxlor.com> <1176227087.27233.8.camel@ikaros.oook.cz> <200704120543.53063.mail@maxlor.com> <1176391950.1820.3.camel@rnoland-ibm.acs.internap.com>
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Robert Noland wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 05:43 +0200, Benjamin Lutz wrote: >> Hello Pav, >> >> On Tuesday 10 April 2007 19:44, Pav Lucistnik wrote: >>> Benjamin Lutz píše v út 10. 04. 2007 v 04:52 +0200: >>>> Some time ago, after buying a Core 2 Duo system, I've become >>>> interested in doing something about the inherent >>>> single-threadedness of the ports. Even though I have a dualcore >>>> machine, ports builds only ever use one core. I started thinking >>>> about various approaches to introduce parallelism to ports builds >>>> and wrote down my thoughts here: >>>> http://marc.info/?l=freebsd-ports&m=116124997126657&w=2 >>> I have same thoughts, and I wrote about it on Project Ideas page. >>> That text materialized into a Summer of Code proposal, which is most >>> probably going to get funded. So stay tuned. However, the proposal >>> concentrates mainly on allowing several ports to build in parallel. > > Have any of you looked at sysutils/bsdadminscripts, it's buildflags > options allow for parallel builds as well as ccache / distcc use. I > have a reasonable list of ports that must have some or all of these > options disabled as well. > > robert. I happen to be the author of that and I maintain a list of ports that cause trouble in a German Wiki: http://wiki.bsdforen.de/Distcc#FreeBSD_Ports These are all the ports that ever made trouble when I tried to build them with 'make -j'. I have around 500 Ports installed, so I think those aren't really many.
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