Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 11:25:33AM -0600, Sergey Babkin wrote: > > >From: =?ISO646-US?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=3Frgrav?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > >Gary Thorpe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> This effectively means that you cannot take advantage of SMP to > > >> compile FreeBSD's ports collection. That sounds like a big > > >> limitation...especially for people trying to speed up bulk builds. > > > > > >We cannot be held responsible for race conditions in the Makefiles of > > >third-party software. > > > > Well, maybe we can then build multiple ports in parallel. > > I guess the way to do it would be to run the top-level make with > > -j but then disable it when calling the makefiles of the > > individual ports. Not that I have any idea how to actually > > do that. > > It's harder than that, because you need to impose dependency > information and mutual exclusion between different makes. e.g. they > can't both be compiling the same port at the same time, which will > happen if you just do the naive thing.
That's the part that "make -j" is supposed to take care of, since it should build in parallel only the targets independent of each other. -SB _______________________________________________ freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
