Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 18:46:00 -0400 From: Jonathan Arnold <jdarnold@buddydog.org> To: Charles Howse <chowse@charter.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Make buildworld failure Message-ID: <3F42A8A8.2020409@buddydog.org> In-Reply-To: <001c01c36693$68057680$04fea8c0@moe> References: <001c01c36693$68057680$04fea8c0@moe>
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Charles Howse wrote: >>>cd /usr/src >>>make buildworld (drat, I should have done make -j4 buildworld!) >> >>Actually, no, don't do the -j4 - I think that's why it worked. >>I was fiddling with the -j flag once and ran into a bunch of >>problems, when it was pointed out that this isn't a "supported" >>way of doing a make buildworld. I stopped using it and all was >>well. > > Very interesting. > On page 490 of "FreeBSD Unleashed" it references the -j4 parameter as a > way to speed up the make buildworld process by spawning multiple > simultaneous processes. > > The same thing is referenced in Chapter 20 of the FreeBSD Handbook. > > Is this now depreciated? In fact, "FreeBSD Unleashed" is where I first saw it, and got caught by it. -- Jonathan Arnold (mailto:jdarnold@buddydog.org) http://www.TheWargamer.com || http://www.iSimulacrum.com
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