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.
Is there any detailed information available on what's planned here that isn't in your description on SoC page? > Yes, a whitelist approach looks best. > > > 3) Save this to /usr/local/etc/parallel_builds.conf: > > http://www.maxlor.com/temp/parallel_builds.conf . > > This is a list of ports as stored in PKGORIGIN, or as > > pkg_info -o reports them. > > I was thinking about having it embedded in every port's Makefile > directly, instead. Something like > > USE_MAKE_JOBS= 2 Yes, that's what I had in mind as a final goal too. Having a single file whitelist is useful though, since you don't have to patch hundreds of makefiles while the whole thing is being tested and developed. > I have great interest in this development. This is a highly desirable > feature to have. Me too. Could you keep me in the loop on how the SoC project progresses? Seeing how that's concentrating on inter-port-parallelism, I think I'll continue to work on intra-port-parallelism for a bit. Cheers Benjamin
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