Re: Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-12 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 11, 2012, at 16:12, Chris Jones wrote: I still Do not see what you really expect to gain. Installing from source is, in my experience, dominated by the build phase, and this *already* will build ports in parallel (make -j X or similar) where it can. Just run top and you will see

Re: Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-12 Thread James Linder
On 13/09/2012, at 3:00 AM, macports-users-requ...@lists.macosforge.org wrote: I don't find a way to let port install multiple independent ports in parallel to maximally use the cores on a machine. Is there a way to do so? Thanks! This used to be allowed (unintentionally, I think) and would

Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-11 Thread Peng Yu
Hi, I don't find a way to let port install multiple independent ports in parallel to maximally use the cores on a machine. Is there a way to do so? Thanks! -- Regards, Peng ___ macports-users mailing list macports-users@lists.macosforge.org

Re: Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Jones
On 11 Sep 2012, at 5:57pm, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I don't find a way to let port install multiple independent ports in parallel to maximally use the cores on a machine. Is there a way to do so? Thanks! No need. Ports (that can) automatically build in parallel themselves.

Re: Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-11 Thread Jeremy Lavergne
I don't find a way to let port install multiple independent ports in parallel to maximally use the cores on a machine. Is there a way to do so? Thanks! No need. Ports (that can) automatically build in parallel themselves. He means two separate ports, rather than building a single port with

Re: Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-11 Thread Ryan Schmidt
On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:57, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't find a way to let port install multiple independent ports in parallel to maximally use the cores on a machine. Is there a way to do so? Thanks! This used to be allowed (unintentionally, I think) and would sometimes work,

Re: Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, On 11 Sep 2012, at 06:20 PM, Jeremy Lavergne jer...@lavergne.gotdns.org wrote: I don't find a way to let port install multiple independent ports in parallel to maximally use the cores on a machine. Is there a way to do so? Thanks! No need. Ports (that can) automatically build in

Re: Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-11 Thread Peng Yu
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:57, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't find a way to let port install multiple independent ports in parallel to maximally use the cores on a machine. Is there a way to do so? Thanks!

Re: Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-11 Thread Brandon Allbery
On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 4:58 PM, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: There are many tools out there to handle dependencies for compiling software and for many other purpose as well. For example, GNU make, cmake, ant, maven, etc. I think that there should be (at least theoretically) some way of

Re: Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-11 Thread Dominik Reichardt
On 11.09.2012, at 22:58, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't find a way to let port install multiple independent ports in parallel to maximally use the cores on a machine. Is there a way to do so? Thanks! This used to be allowed (unintentionally, I think) and would sometimes work,

Re: Installing ports in parallel

2012-09-11 Thread Chris Jones
Hi, On 11 Sep 2012, at 09:58 PM, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 11, 2012 at 12:50 PM, Ryan Schmidt ryandes...@macports.org wrote: On Sep 11, 2012, at 11:57, Peng Yu pengyu...@gmail.com wrote: I don't find a way to let port install multiple independent ports in parallel