Bahman M. wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Is it possible to do automatic fetching of source files in the >> background while other parts are being compiled? > > > Just login on multiple consoles or use multiple x terminals (if running > X) and on each one run 'make' for the port you want to compile. The > port(s) will be fetched and compiled simultaneously. Then all you need > to do is to run 'make install' for each port. > > Note: I'm not sure but I think it's not a good practice to issue more > than one 'make install' at a time. This is fine unless 2 ports depend on the same one -- i.e the glib related ones esp. The makes will "rm -f the .o" files and confuse one another. If this happens no biggie, just rerun the make for that port in one window.
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