error while compile port

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On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 22:09:31 +0000
Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Jan 2011 23:43:22 +0200
> Коньков Евгений <kes-kes at yandex.ru> wrote:
> 
> > cd /usr/ports/<any>/<port>
> > make -j 16 install
> 
> Don't do that then :)
> 
> Ports which are marked MAKE_JOBS_SAFE will automatically be built
> using -j as far as I know.


They are also doing very different things. MAKE_JOBS_SAFE applies -j to
GNU make, which is invoked to do the actual compiling of
third-party software. make -j 16 install applies -j to BSD make, which
is used to implement the ports system itself.