How much memory to compile www/chromium?

[Ian Lepore]

On Wed, 2018-12-12 at 21:25 +0100, Christoph Moench-Tegeder wrote:
> ## bob prohaska (fbsd at www.zefox.net):
> 
> > 
> > > 
> > > See bsd.ports.mk: DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS (as in "make
> > > -DDISABLE_MAKE_JOBS").
> > > 
> > Thank you, I think that's the information needed. Come to think of
> > it, 
> > will the -j option, such as -j2, work in this situation also? Two
> > threads
> > are much better than one 8-)
> If you had looked into bsd.port.mk yourself... right below the docs
> of
> DISABLE_MAKE_JOBS (line 814) is some documentation for
> MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER
> and MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER_LIMIT. -j won't help because there's a lot of
> arguments sanitizing going on - we can't be having with random
> arguments
> showing up down in the port's make invocations - quite often, it's
> not even "our" make down there.
> 
> Regards,
> Christoph
> 

That's a bit of a harsh tone to take with a user who has questions. If
Bob was an aspiring ports developer, maybe a response like that would
make some sense. Asking a user who knows how to build ports to be
poking around in and understanding the guts of the ports build
framework is a bit much. Asking them to even know bsd.port.mk *exists*
is a bit much.

A good response would be to point a user to the manpage that documents
all this stuff. Oh wait... there isn't one.

-- Ian