Re: Erros in: make -j 16 buildword

On Thursday 22 July 2004 11:47 am, Doug White wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Jul 2004, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> > From: "Doug White" <dwhite_at_gumbysoft.com>
> >
> > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2004, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > One way or another it seems that I can no longer buildworld
> > > > with -j16. -j8 works perfectly, but -j16 fails consistently at:
> > >
> > > [...]
> > >
> > > > Unless anybody has suggestions of which programs generate these
> > > > tearse messages???
> > > > Or a way to get make to be more informative???
> > >
> > > You need to capture the entire output since the error is buried
> > > in there. Make doesn't abort -j builds until all the subprocesses
> > > are finished, and they can run for a long time...
> >
> > You know how long the output of a buildworld is, right??
> > When the errors are reported, visually it is at the point where it
> > normally looks like it is done.
>
> Its not that bad. There's a large number of people that log their
> builds, and besides, diskspace is cheap!

I am one of these people. I figure that if you don't log, then you must 
think your time isn't worth anything because you have to rerun it to 
log the problem. I created a directory called /var/log/build to hold 
the logs.

I don't have any MP systems and -j* was always slower than no -j. With a 
no -j log, you don't have to rerun the build to find the problem. I 
never seem to have enough of "me-time" but the system doesn't care what 
it does :).

Kent

>
> > Building ports gives you notice of the directory in which it
> > started to come up from thus telling you which package was in
> > error.....
>
> Port builds aren't done in parallel. The error was printed at the
> point of the error, but it doesn't cause all the other subprocesses
> to be killed immediately, so they run to completion.
>
> > Maybe I'll see if I can put something like this in make of the
> > makefiles....
>
> Good luck...

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Kent Stewart
Richland, WA

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