What is MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE?

Eitan Adler lists at eitanadler.com
Wed Sep 11 04:19:18 UTC 2013


On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Thomas Mueller
<mueller6724 at bellsouth.net> wrote:
>> Can I safely
>> pkg delete -f gio-fam-backend
>> since its function is (?) presumably filled by glib 2.36 ?
>
> Yes, providing that you've rebuilt all ports that did previously require
> gio-fam-backend.
>
> I had three that failed, and MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes apparently had no effect:
> multimedia/mplayer, graphics/gstreamer-plugins-gl, multimedia/vlc

In most cases MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes will not help.  The message is an
artifact from when the defaults were reversed and a precaution for the
days after it was changed.

IMHO it should be removed now.


-- 
Eitan Adler


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