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Old 15th September 2008
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make -j doesn't work with all ports, at least last time I tried it (FreeBSD ~6.0-release)

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Originally Posted by ephemera View Post
how about a utility to build/upgrade ports similiar to portmaster but multi-process (or muti-threaded) so that ports can be build much faster on multi-core processors.

An utility like portmaster that can make good use of SMP systems would be nice to have in the ports tree, especially if such areas of computer science interest you scotsman.
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