Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-05 Thread RW
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 22:45:53 - "Thomas Sparrevohn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There really two answers possible here - > > 1) Let's call it one depth e.g. make -j - Which works with some not > all ports - Nice when it works and I guess ports/Mk could hold a flag > 2) Let's call it width - e

RE: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
least some of the kde packages - but only I think if make extract/patch/configure are run without -j -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of RW Sent: 05 March 2007 21:21 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: compiling ports with more th

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-05 Thread RW
On Sat, 3 Mar 2007 13:55:53 +0100 (CET) Christian Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:37:33 + RW wrote: > > > There are two problems here. The first is that not all of the > > underlying builds support this. The second is that we are using > > Make as our ports scripting

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:37:33 + RW wrote: > There are two problems here. The first is that not all of the > underlying builds support this. The second is that we are using Make as > our ports scripting language - I'm guessing that in Gentoo no-one > expects portage itself to be parallel. I d

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:07:24 -0500 Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Exactly right. However, you can get some parallel building by doing > more than one single-threaded build at the same time. This leads to > some danger of corrupting the database, though, so it's not for the > squeamish. I know that por

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-03 Thread Christian Baer
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 10:44:16 -0600 Josh Paetzel wrote: > The issues with the config screen sounds like a bug, but one that is > unlikely to get fixed any time soon. You can avoid it by doing a > make config-recursive before building the port, but you're still > going to run in to the problem t

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-02-28 Thread RW
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 11:32:57 +0100 (CET) Christian Baer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Good morning[1], folks! > > I am currently setting up a Sun U60 with FreeBSD. A few amount of apps > will be installed on it, when I'm through with it. And that is where > it gets a little frustrating. > > The p

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-02-28 Thread Lowell Gilbert
Josh Paetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 28 February 2007 04:32, Christian Baer wrote: >> Good morning[1], folks! >> >> I am currently setting up a Sun U60 with FreeBSD. A few amount of >> apps will be installed on it, when I'm through with it. And that is >> where it gets a little

Re: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-02-28 Thread Josh Paetzel
On Wednesday 28 February 2007 04:32, Christian Baer wrote: > Good morning[1], folks! > > I am currently setting up a Sun U60 with FreeBSD. A few amount of > apps will be installed on it, when I'm through with it. And that is > where it gets a little frustrating. > > The packages for SPARC64 aren't