>> > what about having DPB_PROPERTIES=parallel ? >> >> Not sure about that. Someone else who is familiar with this feature should >> comment as to whether it should be added or not. > > You run a build with MAKE_JOBS=1 and one with MAKE_JOBS=2 (or better 4 > if you have the hardware) and compare the build times. If it sorta, > kinda scales, we enable DPB_PROPERTIES=parallel. > > The last time I checked boost it scarled poorly enough that I thought > enabling the parallel build wasn't worth it, but I don't remember > the figures.
i will try running with values of 1, 2 and 4 with a rm -rf /usr/ports/pobj/.ccache/ and report.
