On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, Brian A. Seklecki - Stargate Industries, LLC - NOC wrote:
> Does pkgsrc use any sort of lockfile mechanism to indicate that's
> currently being built?  I imagine there is, to prevent recursive
> dependencies from causing a loop.  In my example, I have an older slower
> machine, and I want to start building two "meta"  packages at once before
> I head out, but I imagine they share some basic dependencies (libraries -
> I imagine GMOME will get involved).  In theory, they could both attempt to
> build the same package dependency at once, causing problems, correct?

Correct, no locking is performed.
You won't gain speed by two concurrent compilers on slow machines anyways.


 - Hubert

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Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>