On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:44:43AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > On 2009-03-23, Pedro de Oliveira <fa...@rdk.homeip.net> wrote: > > Thanks for that, it worked! > > > > I added the following to my root .profile: > > export PARALLEL_BUILD=Yes > > export MAKE_JOBS=4 > > N.B. this does not work with all ports. > > If you're building a number of ports at the same time and want to do these > in parallel, look at /usr/ports/infrastructure/build/dpb, which normally runs > one build job per cpu in the system (and takes care of dependencies etc).
Yep, does not work with all ports. And I still have stuff I need to fix in make itself before we even think of fixing the ports that don't work with make -j: some of them don't work because the makefiles are wrong, and some of them don't work because make -j does not equate targets which leads to the same file. E.g., make -j does not know (yet) that a and ./a are the same file... (so putting workarounds for that specific make limitation is out of the question. I hope to have enough time this release cycle to fix THAT particular bug...)
