cvs commit: ports/textproc/ots Makefile

Alexey Dokuchaev danfe at FreeBSD.org
Mon Aug 29 14:39:44 UTC 2011


On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 02:03:05PM +0100, Chris Rees wrote:
> 2011/8/26 Alexey Dokuchaev <danfe at freebsd.org>:
> > Just replying to a random MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE commit.  I have a suggestion
> > which I think would help us to fix parallel builds when portmgr@ decides to
> > start running -exp runs with forced MAKE_JOBS: every time one of us marks a
> > port as MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE, should provide a short comment on the nature of a
> > failure.
> >
> > Perhaps MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE knob could be refactored into something similar to
> > other "brokenness" knobs and tought to accept a reason string, while "yes"
> > value could still be used for cases when exact cause of breakage is not so
> > obvious.
> 
> There's no reason a comment can't be put into MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE;

Indeed.  I just wasn't sure if it's being checked against "yes" or simply if
defined.

./danfe


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