Re: 5.3 STABLE kernel compilation oddity

From: Juergen Dankoweit (Juergen.Dankoweit_at_t-online.de)
Date: 01/31/05

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    To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 19:16:48 +0100

    Hello,

    Am Montag, den 31.01.2005, 09:53 -0600 schrieb Billy Newsom:
    > Alex Burke wrote:
    >
    > > Hi,
    > >
    > > I wasnt quite sure what to call this problem.
    > >
    > > I am running FreeBSD 5.3 STABLE on a quad Pentium Pro IBM Netfinity
    > > 7000 system, and since the GENERIC kernel does not come SMP enabled I
    > > compiled a kernel with SMP support and drivers for networks card and
    > > SCSI RAID adapter built into it (not loaded as modules). This build
    > > happens fine under the original GENERIC kernel.
    > >
    > My last cvs update was the 30th (yesterday) and it compiled for me using
    > make -j6 buildworld and took 3:38. My kernel build took 1:27. Those are
    > with a working SMP kernel, so the generic kernel would take longer.

    In a german documenation I have read that the "-j"-switch should not be
    used because I makes trouble especially on SMP-systems.
    I don't have the source for this anymore. I think it was described in a
    german BSD-forum.

    Best regards

    Jürgen

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