Compiling utilizing multiple CPUs

[Chuck Swiger]

On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Chuck Robey wrote:
>> The quality of the Makefiles or similar used by individual ports  
>> varies,
>> and many of them are not safe to compile in a multithreaded fashion.
>> You can set "MAKEFLAGS=-j3" or similar in your environment, but it's
>> really not recommended.
>>
>
> I think it's necessary to tell why its not recommend it: because many
> makefiles are insufficiently sedt up to correctly allow multiple  
> cpu's to
> work side by side.

Well, didn't I just say that above?

I assure you that "not safe to compile in a multithreaded fashion"  
means pretty much the same thing as "not set up to correctly allow  
multiple CPU's to work side by side".  :-)

Regards,
-- 
-Chuck