how to speed up port make??

[David Naylor]

On Wednesday, 25 July 2012 17:02:37 Mr U wrote:
> hi
> 
> is it possible to speed up port make ??
> i want to install openbox and xorg on a Pentium 4 and 2gb ram,
> compiling xorg takes about 2 hours

A few things you could try adding to make.conf:
FORCE_MAKE_JOBS=yes
MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=4

Also, you could try ports-mgmt/portbuilder as it handles concurrent building 
of ports.  

Regards
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