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 wrote:
>>Is this possible or am I being unreaso
>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
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On Mar 15, 2011, at 12:20 PM, John wrote:
> I am no expert on make, so, here goes:
>
> Can -j options be used for make when building ports?
Yes. Ports which support parallel builds will have MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes set in
the port Makefile. It
Hello freebsd-questions,
I am no expert on make, so, here goes:
Can -j options be used for make when building ports? I have an AMD X2
6000+ so presumably I'd use -j3 if this is possible. I know from the
docs that -j is not recommended for make installkernel or installworld -
but for some ports pa