On 20 September 2013 11:52, Gary Palmer <gpal...@freebsd.org> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:49:28AM -0400, Thomas Laus wrote: >> Gary Palmer [gpal...@freebsd.org] wrote: >> > >> > When building kernel & world do you use the '-j' argument to do parallel >> > builds? AFAIK thats not done by default, but it is for some ports. >> > >> Gary: >> >> I just use the system defaults when building anything. If there is a >> '-j' argument passed to the compiler, I was not the one that did it. >> Does this mean that the port building process needs to determine the >> processor type in the configure stage? I only use portmaster to keep >> the ports updated. I don't know of a global hook that will change the >> compiler build flags in portmaster. > > Hi Tim, > > It's not a compiler flag, it's a make flag. make -j n will fork off up to > n compilers to do the build. If you just do "make buildworld" then there > is no parallel compilation. > > It used to be that ports had MAKE_JOBS_SAFE in the Makefile to mark that > the port could be built using parallel compiles with the '-j' argument > to make. It appears that the logic has been switched and now you have > to mark them as MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE to say that parallel builds shouldn't be > done, indicating that parallel builds are the default now (unless I'm > misreading the code) > > You can try putting > > DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS=yes > > into /etc/make.conf to see if that stops the problem on port builds. > Alternatively I think you could do > > portmaster -m DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS=yes <other options> > > However you'd have to do that each time you run portmaster. I think > putting > > PM_MAKE_ARGS="DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS=yes" > > in your .portmasterrc may do the same thing (not tried it). > > Note: this is NOT a fix. If it works, it merely stops the ports builder > from triggering the problem by not doing parallel compiles. The compiles > will also take longer. >
I believe that both world/kernel & ports will honour MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=1 #(in /etc/make.conf) which should restrict all builds to 1 "parallel" thread, yes? -- -- _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
