David Brownlee wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007, Tim & Alethea Larson wrote:
>> Maybe keeping a single copy of pkgsrc for all my machines to build 
>> from makes some sense, then.  (I have a mostly-unused 9 GB drive in a 
>> mostly-unused SGI box; having a reason to keep it turned on would be 
>> great.)  I'll have to look into how to keep output files organized 
>> when doing that, though.  I assume the framework supports this somehow 
>> - work/<platform> subdirs maybe?
> 
> in your /etc/mk.conf set:
> 
>     WRKOBJDIR?=/var/obj/pkg
> 
> (or wherever)

After seeing some of the other recent posts and reading some archives of 
the pkgsrc list, setting this to a tmpfs /tmp/work might be a big help. 
  With sources on a NFS mount and object files in memory, my Q840 might 
finally be unleashed.  :)

If I understand this correctly, though, nothing on a tmpfs ever gets 
written to disk...so I need to do a "make install" (or package) before 
power goes off or I'll end up losing everything.  Right?

> If you have plenty of memory you may also want to speed things up:
> 
>     CFLAGS+=-pipe

Well 128 MiB is plenty most of the time but if I go with a tmpfs I'll be 
putting a lot more demands on it too.  This could be a good alternative 
to the idea above, though.

Thanks for all the suggestions.


Tim
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