On Sunday 15 January 2006 18:15, Ashok Shrestha wrote: > I am curious to know if there is a way to compile a port such as X11 > or KDE faster. > > I know in Gentoo, you can mount a part of RAM and compile in that. > This substantially decreases the compile time. Reference: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage_with_tmpfs > > Does anyone know how to do this in Freebsd?
Make a RAM drive using mdconfig and the mount it somewhere. Then put WRKDIRPREFIX=/path/to/md in /etc/make.conf -- Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C
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