On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:08:36 -0500 Greg Troxel wrote: > > I realize that the general idea is not to add > > incomplete/buggy features to pkgsrc, but, on the other hand, we still > > have MAKE_JOBS--and that is _inherently_ broken and _cannot_ be fixed, > > whereas this feature could always be improved. > > As far as I know MAKE_JOBS works fine. The problem is that half the > upstream packages are buggy (yes, this is a statement about my view on > modern requirements). So if MAKE_JOBS_SAFE defaulted to no and was set > to yes in makefiles, it would be fine. Agreed. > (Given where we are, with a lot > of packages marked, I don't think we should change. I routinely rebuild > everything I use with MAKE_JOBS=4 on a 2-cpu machine and have trouble > less and less often.) It's also very useful with distcc. -- Adam Hoka