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Date:      Thu, 09 Nov 2000 07:01:40 -0600
From:      Drew Sanford <lauasanf@bellsouth.net>
To:        Jeremiah Gowdy <jgowdy@home.com>
Cc:        Otter <otterr@telocity.com>, Roman Shterenzon <roman@harmonic.co.il>, Makoto MATSUSHITA <matusita@jp.FreeBSD.org>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG, questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: We cannot use 'make -j' option to build the world, period.
Message-ID:  <3A0AA034.6BA51DFF@bellsouth.net>
References:  <HLEDJBJKDDPDJBMGCLPPKEFGCIAA.otterr@telocity.com> <002d01c04a11$83b376d0$aa240018@cx443070b>

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Jeremiah Gowdy wrote:
> 
> > Regarding the -j option, I seem to remember someone telling me that
> > option was only for make buildworld/installworld and not the modules
> > or anything else.
> 
> This information is outdated I believe.  This used to be true however, I can
> attest to having built 4.x worlds with -j 4 many times.

I built 4.2-BETA on two different SMP machines with -j6 and -j8,
dependant upon the amount of ram in the machine. Both ran buildworld
without a problem.

-- 
Drew Sanford
lauasanf@bellsouth.net or drew@planetwe.com


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