Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2013 08:03:47 +0200 From: Matthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de> To: freebsd-ports@freebsd.org Subject: Re: What is MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE? Message-ID: <522EB643.5040900@gmx.de> In-Reply-To: <43.E3.01080.4BA9E225@hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com> References: <43.E3.01080.4BA9E225@hrndva-omtalb.mail.rr.com>
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Am 10.09.2013 06:06, schrieb Thomas Mueller: >> Thomas, > >> It prevents parallel ("make -j 4") build of ports, and your assumption >> about how to set it is correct; alternatively, it can be given on the >> make command line: > >> portmaster -mMAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes multimedia/vlc. > >> URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/building.html > >> It's described in Section 6.3.1 Building Ports in Parallel of the >> porter's handbook, and apparently a bit out of date, because >> MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes is now the default, and this feature must explicitly >> be _disabled_. > >> Can someone from among the doc committers team please reflect the new >> default in the Porter's Handbook? (I was looking at r42618.) > > HTH >> Matthias > > If MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes is already the default, then presumably trying to build or upgrade a port will fail just the same with this part specified? FORCE_MAKE_JOBS is the new default, meaning that: Unless MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE is defined, MAKE_JOBS_SAFE is assumed. You should not see the ports framework message telling you to retry if MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE is set. > I see in other posts that vlc has had a further update/commit, and I could switch from mplayer to mplayer2, but what about gstreamer-plugins-gl, or is this not critical? I have not followed what's needed there. > Can I safely > pkg delete -f gio-fam-backend > since its function is (?) presumably filled by glib 2.36 ? Yes, providing that you've rebuilt all ports that did previously require gio-fam-backend.
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