Re: pkgsrc bulk build profile

[Joerg Sonnenberger <joerg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 07:38:35AM +0100, Robert Luciani wrote:
> I was under the impression that all build scripts were simply single-threaded.
> Including the following in mk.conf should help a bit:
> MAKE_FLAGS+=-j5
> Last time I uncommented it in my setup though, it made many packages break
> during compilation.

This is about running multiple independent builds at the same time.
4/8 single threaded builds are good enough to ensure that the cpu are
kept busy.

Joerg