Re: Basic replace support for DESTDIR

[Adam Hoka <adam.hoka%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:08:36 -0500
Greg Troxel wrote:

> > I realize that the general idea is not to add
> > incomplete/buggy features to pkgsrc, but, on the other hand, we still
> > have MAKE_JOBS--and that is _inherently_ broken and _cannot_ be fixed,
> > whereas this feature could always be improved.
> 
> As far as I know MAKE_JOBS works fine.  The problem is that half the
> upstream packages are buggy (yes, this is a statement about my view on
> modern requirements).  So if MAKE_JOBS_SAFE defaulted to no and was set
> to yes in makefiles, it would be fine.

Agreed.

> (Given where we are, with a lot
> of packages marked, I don't think we should change.  I routinely rebuild
> everything I use with MAKE_JOBS=4 on a 2-cpu machine and have trouble
> less and less often.)

It's also very useful with distcc.

-- 
Adam Hoka