We are still stabilizing the new buildworld -j N changes. In addition
to the install utility needing some internal fixes, the mkdir(1) utility
also needed an internal fix. In order to bootstrap being able to run
buildworld -j N you may have to update both of these utilities manually
as follows (after updating your sources to the latest master), before
running your buildworld:
cd /usr/src/usr.bin/xinstall
make clean; make obj; make all install
cd /usr/src/bin/mkdir
make clean; make obj; make all install
I still expect there to be a few more races that crop up every once in
a while and we will continue to fix them as they pop up.
--
Also note that the higher concurrency will of course also use more
memory, including potentially a lot more memory during the GCC build.
When running on machines with limited ram you may have to reduce the
-j N value you used in the past. As before, machines with very little
ram (e.g. less than 1G) will probably page to swap during a -j N build
even with N as low as 4.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dil...@backplane.com>
