smp and portupgrade

[Kris Kennaway]

On Sun, Apr 02, 2006 at 08:57:30PM +1200, Andrew McNaughton wrote:

> It would be nice if the ports system itself were multi-thread clean. 
> Presumably we'd want a flag in each appropriate port's makefile which 
> enabled a multi-threaded build where this is known to work.
> 
> Equally, it would be nice if portupgrade were able to work on separate 
> ports in parallel where dependency structures allow for it.
> 
> Are there any fundamental reasons why such things couldn't work?

No..just a lot of work needed to make it happen.

Kris
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