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Date:      Wed, 20 Dec 2000 09:41:57 +0200
From:      Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>
Cc:        asami@FreeBSD.org, ports@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: ports lockfile?
Message-ID:  <20001220094157.C644@ringworld.oblivion.bg>
In-Reply-To: <20001219113535.Q19572@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:35:35AM -0800
References:  <20001219113535.Q19572@fw.wintelcom.net>

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On Tue, Dec 19, 2000 at 11:35:35AM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> I'm pretty sure I've mentioned this before, I got a lot of approval
> for the idea, but I don't have the time and familiarity with the
> ports mk files to do what I propose.
> 
> Usually when doing an install I'll start building several ports in
> at the same time  The problem is that frequently the ports will
> recurse into the same dependancy, and the two builds will clobber
> each other.

FWIW, yes, I verily support this idea :)

> I tried to figure out some way for the ports to use the 'lockf'
> utility on the port makefile in order to protect it, but I can't
> seem to figure out how and where to use lockf.
> 
> We'd need some pre-pre-pre make step to do this I imagine, anyone
> want to try to do this?  Is it a good idea?

There seems to already be a pre-everything target, which is invoked
for old port layouts and for bad utilities version; there also is
a default pre-everything target, with nothing but a DO_NADA there.
This would seem like a good place for acquiring the lock.

G'luck,
Peter

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