Suggestion: Include SMP build instructions in page on configuring/building kernel

Justin Sherrill justin at shiningsilence.com
Sun Feb 18 18:51:23 PST 2018


The handbook - and the entire DragonFly site - is a wiki.  So if you
want this to change, you can enter it yourself, immediately.

On Sun, Feb 18, 2018 at 1:12 PM, Stefan Blachmann <info at denkverbot.info> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> just a suggestion: In the handbook page about configuring/building
> kernel, where I landed first, there is no mention that one can do
> parallel building.
>
> I learned of this feature not before I upgraded to Master, after the bug
> in syscons got fixed.
>
> (Btw, big thanks and kudos to Matt :)  The fix seems work fine! And
> thank you for telling me to pkg upgrade, too! Haven't thought of that...)
>
>
> I think this passage in the Upgrading page
> (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/Upgrading/)
>
> "*Note:* You may use a concurrent build..." really deserves to be copied
> to the configure/build kernel page
> (https://www.dragonflybsd.org/docs/handbook/ConfigureKernel/).
>
> Because, I didn't know of that feature from FreeBSD!
>
> And it's just great! Building with all cores instead of just one... I am
> just amazed! I am so happy to finally trying DragonFly :)
>
> Kudos and thanks to you all who made DragonFly!
>
> Stefan
>



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