Hello, > On Sun, 27 Dec 2009, Simon Griffiths wrote: > > > I seem to get errors with quite a few ports if I use the make -j > option. > > Building with multiple jobs is part of the ports system for several > months now. See the MAKE_JOBS variables in /usr/ports/Mk/bsd.port.mk. > Overriding that with -j is going to try to force ports that aren't > multiple-job-safe, probably causing the problems you're seeing. > > The preferred number of jobs defaults to the number of CPUs. That > can be overridden with MAKE_JOBS_NUMBER.
Ahh, that'll be where I'm going wrong then. Thank you very much :) Is this number only be overridden on the command line e.g. make -DMAKE_JOBS_NUMBER=8 install clean... or is there a file I could put this in, I'm thinking make.conf in /etc ? > > -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA Thanks very much Warren, Si _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
