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 language

RE: compiling ports with more than one job

2007-03-05 Thread Thomas Sparrevohn
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 than one job

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.g. the

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 that

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

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

compiling ports with more than one job

2007-02-28 Thread Christian Baer
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 really up to date. That is why using them isn't really an option.

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 really

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 frustrating.

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 packages