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Date:      Fri, 4 May 2001 13:50:13 -0700
From:      Eric Melville <eric@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
Cc:        Akinori MUSHA <knu@iDaemons.org>, Kris Kennaway <kris@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: port policies
Message-ID:  <20010504135013.A72262@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <20010504132631.A55677@xor.obsecurity.org>; from kris@obsecurity.org on Fri, May 04, 2001 at 01:26:31PM -0700
References:  <200104300810.f3U8AGY60114@freefall.freebsd.org> <86elua4wf1.wl@archon.local.idaemons.org> <20010430023347.A70094@xor.obsecurity.org> <20010504123304.B66630@FreeBSD.org> <20010504132631.A55677@xor.obsecurity.org>

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> Hmm..don't know of any ports which do this actually. It's likely to be
> safer (than using high -O values) though, because the author
> presumably tested the build actually works with that value, and -j is
> more of a deterministic thing (except for race conditions in the
> build) than -O is.

These days, make -j (>1) may well be safer than gcc -O(>1), but it still
causes headaches for people with slower hardware and less memory. Yes, the
list of ports that do this is very small, but it's still fairly lame. I do
like proposed idea of a tunable -j number for usage across the tree.

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