Speed up build phase with "make -j"
Anders F Björklund
afb at macports.org
Tue Oct 30 04:43:52 PDT 2007
Weissmann Markus:
> Yes, but I meant this to be a per-Portfile choice so a maintainer can
> mark his/her port as being able to build in parallel. Doing this with
> the sledgehammer for all ports that use 'make' might be a bit too
> much. ;)
It is supposed to be the default... But broken ports might need some
way of signalling so, maybe "build.jobs 1".
> For build.nice it might be cool++ to do change the nice level for
> port(1) directly so all phases run with low priority, not just the
> build phase.
"nice port" ? I'm not sure if Mac OS X has ionice, but it might be
useful for resource hogs like e.g. bzip2...
--anders
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