Re: Compiling utilizing multiple CPUs

2008-01-15 Thread Chuck Robey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuck Swiger wrote: On Jan 14, 2008, at 3:55 PM, Christoffer Strömblad wrote: Having looked through much of the available documentation one thing continues to elude me... Is it possible to specify globally how many CPUs are available when

Re: Compiling utilizing multiple CPUs

2008-01-15 Thread Chuck Swiger
On Jan 15, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Chuck Robey wrote: The quality of the Makefiles or similar used by individual ports varies, and many of them are not safe to compile in a multithreaded fashion. You can set MAKEFLAGS=-j3 or similar in your environment, but it's really not recommended. I think

Re: Compiling utilizing multiple CPUs

2008-01-15 Thread Christoffer Strömblad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'll give your program a go, it looks promising. It will be tested on a Quad-core Xeon CPU system. Even though compiling using several CPUs is not essential, it would just be nice to try and take advantage of what I've got. Will let you know

Re: Compiling utilizing multiple CPUs

2008-01-15 Thread Christoffer Strömblad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yeah I figured that I would be able to pass the -j flag to make but was curious of whether it was possible to do globally. I realize that some ports might not be particularily happy about it. Let's introduce another ports flag for safe multithread

Compiling utilizing multiple CPUs

2008-01-14 Thread Christoffer Strömblad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I've recently begun to explore the world of FreeBSD and all its wonderful things. (Who thought it would even be possible to actually get excited about a port upgrade?) Having looked through much of the available documentation one thing

Re: Compiling utilizing multiple CPUs

2008-01-14 Thread Yoshihiro Ota
Yes, there is. Take a look at http://uyota.asablo.jp/blog/cat/portsplus/. I have written the program and finally came to a satisfying stage. I was thinking to seek for testers after writing some more tips and examples. You can give a try. I've been using/developing it for a half year. Hiro