I had patches for this a couple of years ago when I worked on this problem for summer of code. What I did back then is surely stale, but if people really want it, I'd be happy to take another stab at it.
On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:35 PM, Eitan Adler <li...@eitanadler.com> wrote: >>Is this possible or am I being unreasonable, or both, or not? > > This is unsupported, but you are not being unreasonable. This is a > much wanted feature. > >> Yes. Ports which support parallel builds will have MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes set >> in the port Makefile. It defaults to running -j with >> MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=`${SYSCTL} -n kern.smp.cpus`, but you can change that to >> some other # if you like. > > No, this is incorrect. The MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER and MAKE_JOBS_SAFE is used > internally when building a single port. When the OP is asking if he > can manually specify -j on the command line which would end up > building multiple ports in parallel. This can not be done (primarily > because there is no locking done on ports) > > Certain utilities can make this process faster. For example portmaster > prefetches as much as it can, > > > -- > Eitan Adler > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-po...@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-ports > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-ports-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > -- David _______________________________________________ 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"