Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:14:21 +0100 From: cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws> To: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> Cc: Doug Barton <dougb@freebsd.org>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: make -jN build with portmaster Message-ID: <20090126181421.GA1472@phenom.cordula.ws> In-Reply-To: <200901252241.05483.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> References: <20090125214457.GA4568@phenom.cordula.ws> <8cb6106e0901251422q1412ed38gd14f7591d4dfcabd@mail.gmail.com> <497D4EA6.1020100@FreeBSD.org> <200901252241.05483.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net>
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:41:05PM -0900, Mel wrote: > On Sunday 25 January 2009 20:48:22 Doug Barton wrote: > > Josh Carroll wrote: > > > What I do is the following via make.conf, > > > > I think this is a good solution. Given that incredible foot-shooting > > power of the -j stuff I am not inclined to add something like this to > > portmaster, not even as an "advanced" option. Yes, I understand the problem with that. The make.conf solution is good enough for now. ;) > Given the fact that the build target is presumably -j safe (as far as the > ports system is concerned), it would be nice to have a BUILD_JOBS in > Mk/bsd.port.mk similar to INDEX_JOBS that is already there. Port maintainers > then can also set WITHOUT_PARALLEL (or USE_PARALLEL=NO etc) for ports that > break by themselves (f.e. www/lynx, editors/vim). > portmaster should then have no problem setting BUILD_JOBS on request. That would be absolutely perfect! At least, big ports (www/firefox3 etc...) that take a long time to compile could use USE_PARALLEL=YES right now (or the solution with make.conf) if they are safe with -jN. The gazillion smallish ports could come later when maintainers have some time to follow up, but they are not really all that critical. Memory may fail me, but wasn't there a GSoC project to parallelize the ports infrastructure? Or was that about building many different ports simultaneously instead of one port on multiple cores? -cpghost. -- Cordula's Web. http://www.cordula.ws/
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