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Date:      Mon, 14 May 2001 11:37:53 -0500
From:      Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org>
To:        Joachim =?iso-8859-1?Q?Str=F6mbergson?= <watchman@ludd.luth.se>
Cc:        questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Parallel make flag to ports?
Message-ID:  <15104.2529.405182.943371@guru.mired.org>
In-Reply-To: <104175885@toto.iv>

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Joachim Str=F6mbergson <watchman@ludd.luth.se> types:
> Hi!
>=20
> (This might be a newbie question, so don't kill me, ok?)
>=20
> Since I have this nifty SMP system, which makes buildworlds and
> kernelbuilds perform really well, I had this idea of doing the same
> thing when I build ports. Now, are there:
>=20
> (1) Any way of specifying system wide flags to port builds?
> I browsed the Makefile in /usr/ports/ and the files under Mk/ but did=
n't
> see anything that seemed to be an obvious place for such things. I al=
so
> tried man ports without seeing any obvious relevant info or pointers.=


Read through the make.conf man page, and /etc/defaults/make.conf. Then
set things in /etc/make.conf.

> (2) Would this generally be a good or bad idea?

It may cause some ports to fail to build and/or install. Such ports
should really set the -B option, but not all do. Personally, I just
got into the habit of typing "make -j 10", so that if things fail, I
can try again without the -j option without having to tweak
/etc/make.conf.

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