cvs commit: ports/misc/shared-mime-info Makefile

[Alexey Dokuchaev]

On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 01:19:37PM -0500, Mark Linimon wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 20, 2011 at 04:26:13PM +0000, Alexey Dokuchaev wrote:
> > Pav replied that we need to schedule few more -exp runs, but apparently
> > portmgr@ was ENOTIME back then.
> 
> Since your request, we've done -exps to update the ruby default, the
> perl default, the apache default, and a number of other major things,
> all of which were desirable for 9.0.  The njobs change in my opinion
> is more a nice-to-have.

Understood (I presume).  That's why my original inquiry was sent in
relatively "quiet" period (after gmake update, AFAIR).  I wholeheartedly
support portmgr@'s desire to start taking care of it unless there are other
sweeping changes pending on the queue.  I just wanted to remind that -jX
builds are long desired and once we have resources, we should bite the
bullet and do it.  On our side are number of GNU/Linux distros who had done
this a while ago: either they have patches, of we can backport their
versions MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes (i.e. it's a no-brainer) at least in the
overlapping cases (read: popular ports).

> All of this means that we can turn -exps far more quickly than we ever
> have before.

That's awesome!  BTW, what about sparc64 boxen (several were offered via
donations@) -- these days ports often get marked as BROKEN on sparcs, but
our cluster does not seem to offer any for regular committers (contrary to
ia64) to diagnose the problem/fix it. [1] [2]

./danfe

[1] I am not even asking for jailed root access (yes, pun intended) to be
able to install all necessary dependencies or (preferably) use marcuscom
tinderbox.

[2] Ditto for PowerPC.