On Sun, Jan 15, 2006 at 02:45:30AM -0500, Ashok Shrestha wrote: > Hi, > > I am curious to know if there is a way to compile a port such as X11 > or KDE faster. > > I know in Gentoo, you can mount a part of RAM and compile in that. > This substantially decreases the compile time. Reference: > http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_Speeding_up_portage_with_tmpfs > > Does anyone know how to do this in Freebsd?
You should take a look at mdconfig(8) and ports(7). With mdconfig you create the ram-based disk and with WRKDIRPREFIX you tell the ports to use that disk instead of the default workdir. -- La prueba mas fehaciente de que existe vida inteligente en otros planetas, es que no han intentado contactar con nosotros. _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
