What is MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE?

[Matthias Andree]

Am 10.09.2013 06:06, schrieb Thomas Mueller:
>> Thomas,
>         
>> It prevents parallel ("make -j 4") build of ports, and your assumption
>> about how to set it is correct; alternatively, it can be given on the
>> make command line:
> 
>> portmaster -mMAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes multimedia/vlc.
> 
>> URL: http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en/books/porters-handbook/building.html
> 
>> It's described in Section 6.3.1 Building Ports in Parallel of the
>> porter's handbook, and apparently a bit out of date, because
>> MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes is now the default, and this feature must explicitly
>> be _disabled_.
> 
>> Can someone from among the doc committers team please reflect the new
>> default in the Porter's Handbook?  (I was looking at r42618.)
> 
> HTH
>> Matthias
> 
> If MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes is already the default, then presumably trying to build or upgrade a port will fail just the same with this part specified?

FORCE_MAKE_JOBS is the new default, meaning that:
Unless MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE is defined, MAKE_JOBS_SAFE is assumed.

You should not see the ports framework message telling you to retry if
MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE is set.

> I see in other posts that vlc has had a further update/commit, and I could switch from mplayer to mplayer2, but what about gstreamer-plugins-gl, or is this not critical?

I have not followed what's needed there.

> Can I safely
> pkg delete -f gio-fam-backend
> since its function is (?) presumably filled by glib 2.36 ?

Yes, providing that you've rebuilt all ports that did previously require
gio-fam-backend.