Subject: Re: pkgsrc on SMP machines
To: Hubert Feyrer <feyrer@cs.stevens.edu>
From: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@telenet.be>
List: tech-pkg
Date: 12/15/2005 23:13:45
On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 04:39:51AM +0100, Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> Of course that's a crude hack, and a real solution would involving a
> user-settable variable plus a per-package maximum, and the real value
> would be the somewhere in between there.
I think marking indivual packages as MAKE_THREAD_SAFE=(yes|no) is the best
way to go. The default (for unverified packages) would probably be no then.
Geert