Please explain make -j to my little brain

[John Nielsen]

On Wednesday 17 May 2006 17:06, martinko wrote:
> i remember from mailing lists there used to be a problem with using "-j"
> while compiling kernel or world or ports or sth. is it resolved now pls?

"make -j N" has never been a supported option for ports.  It is supported 
for buildworld and buildkernel, but if something goes wrong with the build 
then the first thing you should do is try the build again without a -j 
flag.

JN