-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Swiger wrote: > On Jan 14, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Christoffer Strömblad wrote: >> Having looked through much of the available documentation one thing >> continues to elude me... Is it possible to specify globally how many >> CPUs are available when compiling a port? When I compile a port now it >> seems as if only one CPU is used, even though more are available. > > The quality of the Makefiles or similar used by individual ports varies, > and many of them are not safe to compile in a multithreaded fashion. > You can set "MAKEFLAGS=-j3" or similar in your environment, but it's > really not recommended. > I think it's necessary to tell why its not recommend it: because many makefiles are insufficiently sedt up to correctly allow multiple cpu's to work side by side. the make(7) utility itself uses the j flag correctly, and I have had many correct items correctly compiled. You just need to understand the makefiles very carefully, and not try the multiple makefile trick without being certain of your makefile. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org
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