Skip site navigation (1)Skip section navigation (2)
Date:      Sat, 05 May 2001 06:08:35 +0900
From:      "Akinori MUSHA" <knu@iDaemons.org>
To:        Will Andrews <will@physics.purdue.edu>, portmgr@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>, FreeBSD Ports <ports@FreeBSD.org>
Subject:   Re: port policies
Message-ID:  <863dakddpo.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010504143140.J3246@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>
References:  <200104300810.f3U8AGY60114@freefall.freebsd.org> <86elua4wf1.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20010430023347.A70094@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010504123304.B66630@FreeBSD.org> <20010504143140.J3246@casimir.physics.purdue.edu>

next in thread | previous in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
At Fri, 4 May 2001 14:31:41 -0500,
Will Andrews wrote:
> On Fri, May 04, 2001 at 12:33:04PM -0700, Eric Melville wrote:
> > Is it also accepted policy to NOT hardcode -j options to make? If not, can
> > we make it so? This is just asking for trouble in many cases.
> 
> Sure.  I think it's probably useful to add a "MAKE_JOBS" variable to
> bsd.port.mk so people who know what they are doing can use it easily.
> Regardless, I agree 100% with you on the -j thing.

How about introducing a per-port boolean variable "MAKE_JOBS_SAFE"
along with "MAKE_JOBS" ?  (Rename them if you could think of better
names)

Index: bsd.port.mk
===================================================================
RCS file: /home/ncvs/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk,v
retrieving revision 1.366
diff -u -u -r1.366 bsd.port.mk
--- bsd.port.mk	2001/04/22 16:47:55	1.366
+++ bsd.port.mk	2001/05/04 21:04:18
@@ -404,6 +404,9 @@
 #				  and install stages (default: see below).
 # MAKE_ARGS		- Any extra arguments to sub-make in build and install
 #				  stages (default: none).
+# MAKE_JOBS		- Specify the -jN option to be added to MAKE_ARGS when
+#				  MAKE_JOBS_SAFE is defined (default: -j4).
+# MAKE_JOBS_SAFE - Says that the port is safe to build with make -jN.
 #
 # For install:
 #
@@ -748,6 +751,12 @@
 SCRIPTS_ENV+=	PORTOBJFORMAT=${PORTOBJFORMAT}
 MAKE_ENV+=		PORTOBJFORMAT=${PORTOBJFORMAT}
 PLIST_SUB+=		PORTOBJFORMAT=${PORTOBJFORMAT}
+
+MAKE_JOBS?=		-j4
+
+.if defined(MAKE_JOBS_SAFE)
+MAKE_ARGS+=		${MAKE_JOBS}
+.endif
 
 .if defined(MANCOMPRESSED)
 .if ${MANCOMPRESSED} != yes && ${MANCOMPRESSED} != no && \



P.S.
Where do all those portmgr's belong?  My patches against bsd.ruby.mk
have always been ignored...

-- 
                     /
                    /__  __            Akinori.org / MUSHA.org
                   / )  )  ) )  /     FreeBSD.org / Ruby-lang.org
Akinori MUSHA aka / (_ /  ( (__(  @ iDaemons.org / and.or.jp

"Freeze this moment a little bit longer, make each impression
  a little bit stronger..  Experience slips away -- Time stand still"

To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org
with "unsubscribe freebsd-ports" in the body of the message




Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?863dakddpo.wl>