Plans for making MAKE_JOBS_SAFE the default?

[Bryan Drewery]

On 9/4/2012 12:17 PM, Eitan Adler wrote:
> When MAKE_JOBS was originally introduced the intent was to flip the
> default after some amount of time and testing. Last this issue came up
> there were objections based on the 7.4 release, 8.2 release, gmake
> upgrade, and other wide scale changes.
> 
> I think it is time to revisit this discussion.
> 
> My proposal:
> - start an exp-run with FORCE_MAKE_JOBS set
> - mark all new failures with MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE
> - flip the default right after the 9.1 release.
> 
> 

+1

I've had this default on my systems for many years now. All of the
broken ports I've known about have been fixed or flagged.

Bryan