compiling ports with more than one job
Christian Baer
christian.baer at uni-dortmund.de
Sat Mar 3 12:35:19 UTC 2007
On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 13:07:24 -0500 Lowell Gilbert wrote:
> Exactly right. However, you can get some parallel building by doing
> more than one single-threaded build at the same time. This leads to
> some danger of corrupting the database, though, so it's not for the
> squeamish. I know that portupgrade uses locking to control those
> problems, and I suspect some of the other port-management ports
> probably have similar capabilities.
That could actually lead to more problems than a port that doesn't work
with -jX.
Regards
Chris
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