HOWTO reduce time of build ?

[Dmitry Morozovsky]

On Mon, 13 Sep 2010, Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:

JMC> > I have installed Tinderbox 3.3.
JMC> > How can i reduce time for building packages ? I own a quad core CPU.
JMC> > I must use more BUILDS ( jail + ports ) in parallel or exist something like make -j ?
JMC> > Thanks for a great tool.
JMC> 
JMC> You can use multiple parallel builds, but the -j does not work.  You can
JMC> also make use of tmpfs as backing store to decrease I/O time.  Other
JMC> users (like itetcu) may be able to offer some more insight.  This is
JMC> something I would love to see written up in an FAQ/whitepaper.

By the way, why current tb explicitly disables ${MAKE_JOBS}?  It seems logical 
to me if tb admin could redefine this, defaulting (oriented to dedicated tb) to  
kern.smp.cpus.


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Sincerely,
D.Marck                                     [DM5020, MCK-RIPE, DM3-RIPN]
[ FreeBSD committer:                                 marck at FreeBSD.org ]
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