Re: Make options

[Izaac <izaac%setec.org@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 12:42:33PM -0600, David Dudley wrote:
> Is there a way to define default options for use by make in
> building/updating the pkgsrc system?
> 
> I'm running on a dual processor quad core machine, and would like make to
> always use the -j 9 to utilize all the cores.
> 
> When I use pkg_chk to do updates, I don't see a way to insert that option.

Put the following in /etc/mk.conf:

   MAKE_JOBS=9

And then be prepared to manage local package Makefiles which fail to build
in parallel, e.g. games/xpat2.  They'll need the following to be added:

   MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=NO

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