lockf in installworld -- not a good idea

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Oct 2 12:22:04 PDT 2006


On Friday 29 September 2006 10:24, Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 29, 2006 at 09:07:19AM -0500, Astrodog wrote:
> > Personally, I find it much, much more important to be able to do an
> > installworld from a "real" single user mode via NFS, than it is to support
> > -j. I don't think I've ever had a circumstance where I really needed make
> > installworld to finish quickly.
> > 
> This doesn't mean it's unused.  For example, our release engineers
> build releases on fast SMP machines, and "make release" can complete
> faster with -j on real SMP hardware.  This is btw how this bug was
> found in the first place.

I'd say it's a bug in src/release/Makefile. :)  It should use WORLD_FLAGS with 
buildworld and not with installworld.

-- 
John Baldwin


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