Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 08:55:03 -0500 From: Mike Meyer <mwm-dated-1050155704.8f2e40@mired.org> To: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: When is it safe to use -jX with make? Message-ID: <16017.33591.472882.510109@guru.mired.org> In-Reply-To: <20030407001131.GA54382@rot13.obsecurity.org> References: <20030407015558.00007425.are-harald.brenne@econ.uib.no> <20030407001131.GA54382@rot13.obsecurity.org>
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In <20030407001131.GA54382@rot13.obsecurity.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org> typed: > > Searching the archives I came across a discussion from december > > concluding ports should not be built with -jX. Does this apply to > > all ports? > Most of them, probably. Actually, most of them are safe to build with -jX (and I'm sorry if that's what you meant). I had portupgrade running -j4 for a while, and a half-dozen or so of the 60 I upgraded had problems. The nasty thing is that some of the failure modes involve makes looping forever across the same part of the process. Unfortunately, the only way to found out is to try it and see. I gave up on it, and just let portupgrade run unattended. It's faster than dealing with the breakage. <mike -- Mike Meyer <mwm@mired.org> http://www.mired.org/consulting.html Independent Network/Unix/Perforce consultant, email for more information.
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