RE: Tuning make.conf

2008-03-13 Thread Luca Presotto
Thank you for your answers, you have been very clear! I'm still not into recompiling the kernel for the moment! I will have a look at the way to speed up the various ports building with the gmake. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://l

Re: Tuning make.conf

2008-03-13 Thread RW
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:20:14 + RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > prescott (32-bit). See /usr/src/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk. That should be /usr/share/mk/bsd.cpu.mk ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/fre

Re: Tuning make.conf

2008-03-13 Thread RW
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:01:47 + RW <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Just set CPUTYPE unless you know what you are doing. I forgot to mention, you can set core2 if you want to. At present, it will be automatically translated into either nocona (64-bit) or prescott (32-bit). See /usr/src/share/mk/b

Re: Tuning make.conf

2008-03-13 Thread RW
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:30:05 +0100 "Luca Presotto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe it's possible that when building the kernel it gives some > problem, but I'm thinking about compiling ports. You need to understand that make.conf affects FreeBSD make, which is used for building the base syst

Re: Tuning make.conf

2008-03-13 Thread RW
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 14:05:27 +0200 "Reko Turja" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > MAKEOPTS==-j3 > > CPUTYPE=core2 > > CFLAGS+= --O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing > > Setting CFLAGS can cause errors while compiling and other undesirable > effects, so I recommend leaving CFLAGS undefined. > If you wan

RE: Tuning make.conf

2008-03-13 Thread Luca Presotto
>Isn't -j depend on how many cpu/core and a faster harddisk / raid? Yes, it is. But with j1 you have only one job running at a time. On a dual core you can really easily running at least two jobs at the same time. Then I've read a number of ideas about which is the relation between the number of

Re: Tuning make.conf

2008-03-13 Thread Reko Turja
Should my make.conf be like: MAKEOPTS==-j3 CPUTYPE=core2 CFLAGS= --O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing or just: MAKEOPTS==-j3 CPUTYPE=core2 or maybe: MAKEOPTS==-j3 CPUTYPE=core2 CFLAGS+= --O2 -pipe -fno-strict-aliasing Setting CFLAGS can cause errors while compiling and other undesirable effects,

Re: Tuning make.conf

2008-03-13 Thread Julius Huang
Hi, On Mar 13, 2008, at 18:58 , Luca Presotto wrote: You're *really* wasting your time. I supposed that! Your system is doing no cpu cycles at all for most of the time anyway. [cut]Also, makeopts and -pipe just make _compiling_ faster, not the applications themselves!!!. I agree with e

RE: Tuning make.conf

2008-03-13 Thread Luca Presotto
>You're *really* wasting your time. I supposed that! >Your system is doing no cpu cycles at all for most of >the time anyway. [cut]Also, makeopts and -pipe just make _compiling_ faster, >not the >applications themselves!!!. I agree with everything. In any case I think that a faster compiling

Re: Tuning make.conf

2008-03-13 Thread Marcin Koziuk
Luca Presotto wrote: Hi everyone! I was starting to think to recompile everything for my pc to speed up everything. I started googling and I found almost nothing about how to change make.conf on bsd. Almost everything was about Gentoo, somehow not unsurprisingly. The first thing I noticed is

Re: Tuning make.conf

2008-03-13 Thread Julius Huang
On Mar 13, 2008, at 17:32 , Luca Presotto wrote: Hi everyone! I was starting to think to recompile everything for my pc to speed up everything. I started googling and I found almost nothing about how to change make.conf on bsd. Almost everything was about Gentoo, somehow not unsurp