Subject: Re: Build on MP with -j_x_ issue
To: Peter Eisch <peter@boku.net>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/23/2004 00:29:34
On Tue, Jun 22, 2004 at 04:58:54PM -0500, Peter Eisch wrote:
> 
> I'm trying to move my build environment to a 4-way i386 for builds.  I set
> '-j4' as an arg for build.sh like:
> 
> ===> build.sh command: /usr/src/build.sh -j4 -u -U -x -M /builds/sparc64/obj
> -m sparc64 -D /builds/sparc64/dest -R /builds/sparc64/release -N 1 -T
> /builds/sparc64/tools release
> 
> But there are times when I have to drop back to a uni-process build.  So I
> kick it off with -j4 and when it dies, I'll rerun without that arg until it
> gets past wherever it croaked, then kill the uni-build and restart with the
> -j4.
> 
> How attentive to these issues should I be?  Should I be doing a trick like
> doing a 'distribution' first with -j4 and then come back with the 'release'
> without that arg?
> 
> Just curious I guess.

You should probably report the details of the failure, so that it's fixed.
It's probably just a missing dependancy in a makefile.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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