Re: sysutils/dbus-glib and MAKE_JOBS

[jnemeth%victoria.tc.ca@localhost (John Nemeth)]

On Apr 20,  7:38am, Rumko wrote:
} John Nemeth wrote:
} > On Apr 19,  8:26pm, Rumko wrote:
} > }
} > } Without MAKE_JOBS, dbus-glib compiles without errors on my machine
} > (DragonFly } BSD) while using for example MAKE_JOBS=2 (also tried with
} > MAKE_JOBS=5) in my } mk.conf makes the package unbuildable "gmake[4]: *** No
} > rule to make target
} > } `../dbus/libdbus-glib-1.la', needed by `dbus-glib-test'.  Stop.".
} > }
} > } Anyone else can confirm this (maybe even on other systems)?
} > 
} >      There are many packages that have problems with MAKE_JOBS.  It
} > isn't surprising that this one has problems.  I've added
} > MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=NO to the Makefile.  This will allow you to build it
} > with MAKE_JOBS in your mk.conf.
} 
} I know that, but if I can find a few of them and report them, it's
} still better than doing nothing? Or are there some other plans
} regarding this and MAKE_JOBS_SAFE is just a temporary solution (in
} which case, it's probably not worth reporting anymore)?

     If you can provide patches to fix the problem with the package or
get upstream to fix the problem, then the MAKE_JOBS_SAFE can be
removed, otherwise it is probably more or less permanent.  There are so
many of these problems that I doubt there are many pkgsrc developers
willing to spend much time on them.  It is just too big of a time sink.
However, feel free to report broken packages, so that MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=NO
can be added to them.

}-- End of excerpt from Rumko