--- Greg Troxel <gdt@ir.bbn.com> wrote:

> David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 04:45:56PM -0500, Greg Troxel wrote:
> >> Bernd Ernesti <netbsd@lists.veego.de> writes:
> >> 
> >> That's all true, but I've been running with MAKE_JOBS = 2, 3 or 4
> for a
> >> long time.  This just passes e.g. -j3 to the make invocation to
> build
> >> the package.  I have run into packages that fail, and have marked
> those
> >> MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=no, and others have done that too.  ...
> >> 
> >> Actually fixing the packages that aren't "-jN safe" is a lot of
> work, of
> >> course, and those fixes really should be done upstream.
> >
> > Trouble is, one sucessful build doesn't actually mean the package
> will
> > always safely build with -j4.
> 
> Absolutely - but usually they fail at least 1/3 and I've rebuilt my
> set
> of packages enough times that I think almost all the unsafe ones in
> that
> set are now tagged as MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=no.

I was just curios: while -jN may not work to build one package, is it
still possible to build N different packages in parallel with pkgsrc?
[What does that other LOCK variable do?]



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