Speed up build phase with "make -j"

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2007-10-31 15:04:45 +0100, Markus Weissmann wrote:
> 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.

But you've said: "Well, you cannot reliably test this. If you're lucky
it might work one time and fail the other.". So, under these conditions,
you cannot know that they 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

I've never suggested that.

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