Re: Make options

[Bernd Ernesti <netbsd%lists.veego.de@localhost>]

On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 11:55:54PM -0500, Izaac wrote:
> 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

It is not that simple, sometimes it fails to build but in other cases
it builds but the result is broken. Thats for pkgsrc, basesrc is ok.

Bernd