Re: can make -j be used for ports?

2011-03-15 Thread David Forsythe
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

Re: can make -j be used for ports?

2011-03-15 Thread Eitan Adler
>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

Re: can make -j be used for ports?

2011-03-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
Hi-- [ ...followups sent to freebsd-ports@ list... ] 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

can make -j be used for ports?

2011-03-15 Thread John
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