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Old 9th October 2008
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Many ports code will not build if -j options are used. The code written by the third parties who wrote the software is not -j safe: It might assume that parts of the code that may be built in parallel are finished before others, so it may bomb out. Finding which ports are -j safe is not easy - not the sort of thing that a single build can work out - so it has ot been done.
A better answer is to build two or more non-dependant ports at once - that is what a SOC project will be looking at.
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