On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 12:45:35 -0500 (CDT)
"Jeremy C. Reed" <reed@reedmedia.net> wrote:

> > Earlier this week I installed macppc on my iBook and, to win some time,
> > I launched different pkgsrc compilations at the same time. When I got
> > back later this day I found that two of these tried to compile gtk+
> > at the same time, and of course it failed for both (seems they wrote
> > in the same file at the same time).
> >=20
> > Wouldn't it be possible to lock building of a package to prevent these
> > sort of things?
>=20
> Hi Lo=EFc,
>=20
> Yes. I have in a mk.conf:
>=20
> OBJHOSTNAME=3D    yes     # use work.`hostname` -- needed for PKGSRC_LOCK=
TYPE
> PKGSRC_LOCKTYPE=3D        sleep
>=20
> I don't know where the docs are. Maybe see
>=20
> mk/internal/locking.mk
> mk/defaults/mk.conf
>=20
>=20
>=20
>   Jeremy C. Reed

Last time I tried pkgsrc locking, it was broken, packages fail to build even
when PKGSRC_LOCKTYPE is set in mk.conf.