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On 09/04/13 07:41, John Marino wrote:
> On 9/4/2013 14:36, Stephen Montgomery-Smith wrote:
>>
>> However, from a philosophical point of view, if a project external to
>> FreeBSD makes source code that is not safe for the -j option to be used,
>> should FreeBSD ports committers feel that it is our job to correct their
>> source code?
>>
>> I think the answer should be "no," and it seems you disagree.  I would
>> like to hear what other people think.
>>
>
> Often issues like this are due to upstream not really understanding how
> g/make works and when somebody points out issues and suggests a fix, the
> fix is often taken with gratitude.
>
> In general I agree with you, but if the fix is trivial, why not to try
> to push it back upstream?

OK, what I will do is to first try to understand how gmake -j works. 
Then look for a fix.  Then see if they want it upstream.

But it will probably take me a while to get it all done.