Speed up build phase with "make -j"

[Markus Weissmann]

On 31.10.2007, at 12:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2007-10-31 12:26:44 +0100, Markus Weissmann wrote:
>> On 31.10.2007, at 05:13, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
>>> I disagree. Port maintainers should test their port to see if they
>>> work with "make -j".
>>
>> Well, you cannot reliably test this. If you're lucky it might work
>> one time and fail the other.
>
> So, what do you suggest? Remain with sequential builds forever?
>

No, but we should only enable parallel builds for software we know to  
behave correctly. I wont kick you if you enable a parallel build for  
a port that you maintain and you are not 100% sure that it'll work  
_always_ -- the bug reports are yours. But I do not like 1.  
unmaintained and 2. my ports to automatically try to build in  
parallel -- and I suppose there are other maintainers that don't like  
their ports to get broken, too.
Therefore I prefer this to be an opt-in and I will enable this  
feature e.g. for the gcc ports I maintain.


-Markus

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