Subject: Re: Build on MP with -j_x_ issue
To: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
From: James Chacon <jmc@NetBSD.org>
List: current-users
Date: 06/23/2004 00:34:24
On Wed, Jun 23, 2004 at 12:29:34AM +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> 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.
> 

Yes, please report these via PR's so they can be fixed.

James