Issues with make -j option on ports

[Simon Griffiths]

Hello,

> On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote:
> 
> > I seem to get errors with quite a few ports if I use the make -j
> option.
> 
> Building with multiple jobs is part of the ports system for several
> months now.  See the MAKE_JOBS variables in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk.
> Overriding that with -j is going to try to force ports that aren't
> multiple-job-safe, probably causing the problems you're seeing.
> 
> The preferred number of jobs defaults to the number of CPUs.  That
> can be overridden with MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER.

Ahh, that'll be where I'm going wrong then. Thank you very much :)

Is this number only be overridden on the command line e.g. make
-DMAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=8 install clean... or is there a file I could put this
in, I'm thinking make.conf in /etc ?

> 
> -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA

Thanks very much Warren,

Si