svn commit: r52413 - head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special
Mateusz Piotrowski
0mp at FreeBSD.org
Mon Oct 29 13:41:01 UTC 2018
Author: 0mp (ports committer)
Date: Mon Oct 29 13:41:00 2018
New Revision: 52413
URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/52413
Log:
Mention "race conditions" in the section about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE.
The reason for this is to increase discoverability of MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE.
Reviewed by: bcr, mat (previous version)
Approved by: mat (mentor)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17383
Modified:
head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml
Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml Mon Oct 29 09:18:42 2018 (r52412)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/special/chapter.xml Mon Oct 29 13:41:00 2018 (r52413)
@@ -506,14 +506,15 @@ IGNORE= may not be redistributed because of licensing
their available <acronym>CPU</acronym> power, allowing port
builds to be faster and more effective.</para>
- <para>This is achieved by passing <varname>-jX</varname> flag
+ <para>This is achieved by passing <literal>-jX</literal> flag
to &man.make.1; running on vendor code. This is the default
build behavior of ports. Unfortunately, not all ports
handle parallel building well and it may be required to
explicitly disable this feature by adding the
<literal>MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes</literal> variable. It is
used when a port is known to be broken with
- <varname>-jX</varname>.</para>
+ <literal>-jX</literal> due to race conditions causing
+ intermittent build failures.</para>
<important>
<para>When setting <varname>MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE</varname>, it
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