How to upgrade perl 5.8 to 5.10?

Boris Kochergin spawk at acm.poly.edu
Wed Jan 20 18:43:16 UTC 2010


Helmut Schneider wrote:
> Michal Varga wrote:
>
>   
>>> # pkg_info | wc -l
>>>     457
>>> #
>>>
>>> And this machine is even my package-building station!
>>>
>>> Anyway, portupgrade -af took 45 minutes. g
>>>
>>>       
>> Well, it's a dedicated blade after all :) And those 8 cores seem
>> pretty nasty, I'm envious.
>>     
>
> Well, afaik I even cannot use more than one CPU when building ports.
> There were plans/rumors that this would change. Does anyone know more
> about it?
>
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It has happened:

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-ports/2009-March/053736.html

I believe *dependencies* of a port will be compiled using one process 
(and thus CPU) at a time, however.

-Boris


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