On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 4:44 PM, cpghost <cpgh...@cordula.ws> wrote: > To build ports in parallel on a 4 core machine, I usually > do this manually: > > # cd /usr/ports/some/port > # make configure && make -j5 build && make install clean > > because all steps except "make build" are not compatible > with -jN (some ports don't work with -jN in the "make build" > phase either, but they are quite rare). > > Now, is there a way to teach portmaster to build or rebuild > ports this way? The only workaround for now is something > like:
What I do is the following via make.conf, which will work for portmaster/portupgrade or manual builds: # set MAKE_ARGS for the build target(s) .if !(make(*install) || make(package)) MAKE_ARGS+=-j8 .endif Then as you find ports that don't build properly, add an entry like this: # some ports don't like -j8, so we can undo the MAKE_ARGS addition for those .if ${.CURDIR:M*/multimedia/mplayer} MAKE_ARGS:=${MAKE_ARGS:C/-j8//} .endif It's a bit of a hack, but I've had decent success with this. Enough ports fail to build with -jX, that I'd never do the above on a production machine, especially since it's possible for some sort of silent error that produces an unpredictable binary. But for my home machine, I've been pretty happy with it. Regards, Josh _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"