ports/113132 (make -j patch)

Florent Thoumie flz at xbsd.org
Wed Mar 12 14:00:16 UTC 2008


On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Florent Thoumie <flz at xbsd.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 12:11 PM, Benjamin Lutz <mail at maxlor.com> wrote:
>  > This patch has been sitting in GNATS for a couple of months now:
>  >
>  >  http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=ports/113132
>  >
>  >  I've received a few mails from people reporting success, and none
>  >  reporting that bad things have happened. Is it possible to get this
>  >  committed?
>
>  It needs to go through an experimental build first.
>
>  IMHO, this is an ugly hack. Ultimately, we're talking about marking
>  almost 20k ports as parallel-safe.
>
>  Why not taking the opposite approach? Allow it by default, figure out
>  which ports break and why, fix where possible?

After talking with Pav, it seems it's still the best option as the
breakage rate is quite high.

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Florent Thoumie
flz at FreeBSD.org
FreeBSD Committer


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