On 30.10.2007, at 13:52, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2007-10-30 12:43:52 +0100, Anders F Björklund wrote:
Weissmann Markus:
Yes, but I meant this to be a per-Portfile choice so a maintainer can mark his/her port as being able to build in parallel. Doing this with the sledgehammer for all ports that use 'make' might be a bit too much. ;)
It is supposed to be the default... But broken ports might need some way of signalling so, maybe "build.jobs 1".
The bug could also be reported upstream, so that a ".NOTPARALLEL:" is added to the Makefile.
Well, this simply is not going to work -- this has to be an opt-in, not an opt-out option! If you do not know if a parallel build will work for a port, you must assume it won't. Once upon a day when we see that 80% of our ports all have that "build_in_parallel yes" option set, we can make it the default, but not as long as only _very_ few do. Otherwise we'd have to tag all our Portfiles with the "dont_even_think_about_a_parallel_build yes" option the moment we release version 1.6 and gradually remove them for the one we know to work... -Markus -- Markus W. Weissmann http://www.mweissmann.de/