> From: Kris Kennaway
> Sent: Saturday, October 19, 2002 2:44 AM

> > 1 error
> > *** Error code 2
>
> The fact that there's no actual error message shown indicates that
> you're doing make installworld with a -j option.  This is not
> supported and as you have found is likely to fail.
>
> Kris

The lack of an error message did seem odd. Thanks for the heads up.

Is the Handbook out of date?  According the Build World section:

<quote>
It is now possible to specify a -j option to make which will cause it to
spawn several simultaneous processes. This is most useful on multi-CPU
machines. However, since much of the compiling process is IO bound rather
than CPU bound it is also useful on single CPU machines.

On a typical single-CPU machine you would run:

    # make -j4 buildworld

make(1) will then have up to 4 processes running at any one time. Empirical
evidence posted to the mailing lists shows this generally gives the best
performance benefit.
</quote>

Let me give it a try without `-j'.

Thanks again,

Riley


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