Bug 185521

Summary: books/porters-handbook: update parallel building section
Product: Documentation Reporter: Jason Helfman <jgh>
Component: Books & ArticlesAssignee: Benedict Reuschling <bcr>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me CC: brd
Priority: Normal    
Version: Latest   
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Description Jason Helfman freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-01-05 21:20:00 UTC
MAKE_JOBS_SAFE is now the default.
Comment 1 Benedict Reuschling freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-01-05 21:52:42 UTC
Responsible Changed
From-To: freebsd-doc->bcr

Grab this one.
Comment 2 dfilter service freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-01-05 22:00:09 UTC
Author: bcr
Date: Sun Jan  5 21:59:57 2014
New Revision: 43436
URL: http://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/doc/43436

Log:
  Update parallel build instructions as MAKE_JOBS_SAFE is the default now.
  Add a missing </para> tag to the provided patch in order to build
  the porters handbook after applying it.
  
  PR:		docs/185521
  Submitted by:	jgh@

Modified:
  head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml

Modified: head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml
==============================================================================
--- head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml	Sun Jan  5 20:58:56 2014	(r43435)
+++ head/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/porters-handbook/book.xml	Sun Jan  5 21:59:57 2014	(r43436)
@@ -5624,21 +5624,13 @@ IGNORE=	may not be redistributed because
 	  builds to be faster and more effective.</para>
 
 	<para>This is achieved by passing <varname>-jX</varname> flag
-	  to &man.make.1; running on vendor code.  Unfortunately, not
-	  all ports handle parallel building well.  Therefore it is
-	  required to explicitly enable this feature by adding
-	  <literal>MAKE_JOBS_SAFE=yes</literal> somewhere below the
-	  dependency declaration section of the
-	  <filename>Makefile</filename>.</para>
-
-	<para>Another option for controlling this feature from the
-	  maintainer's point of view is the
-	  <varname>MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes</varname> variable.  It is
-	  used when a port is known to be broken with
-	  <varname>-jX</varname> and a user forces the use of multi
-	  processor compilations for all ports in
-	  <filename>/etc/make.conf</filename> with the
-	  <literal>FORCE_MAKE_JOBS=yes</literal> variable.</para>
+	  to &man.make.1; running on vendor code.  This is the default
+	  build behavior of ports. Unfortunately, not all ports handle
+	  parallel building well and it may be required to explicitly
+	  disable this feature by adding the
+	  <literal>MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes</literal> variable. It is used
+	  when a port is known to be broken with
+	  <varname>-jX</varname>.</para>
       </sect2>
 
       <sect2 xml:id="using-make">
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Comment 3 Benedict Reuschling freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2014-01-05 22:01:05 UTC
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

Committed a corrected version of the patch. 
Thanks for yet another patch to the porters-handbook, jgh!  
PR closed.