Hello, thanks for reading...
I'm playing with speeding up building ports.
I want to see if there's any benefit to putting the "work" dir in memory.
I tried this, in /etc/make.conf
/memdisk is the mounted memory filesystem (mfs). /memdisk/portwork exists and is writable and all ... I was thinking that /memdisk/portwork would have subdirs for each port which is building. I tested it with a few ports and it seemed to work. Then I tried to build the x11-wm/hs-xmonad port. Built some deps including ghc fine ... but then it fails like this:
Okay, so it can't cd to /memdisk/portwork/mtl-2.0.1.0 ... which sounds reasonable as that dir did not exist when I looked for it immediately after the build failed. The thing is, I discovered that if I simply re-run make it works. Since I did not try to build this port's build dependencies before changing make.conf I do not know if the hiccup which requires that I run 'make' twice for hs-xmonad is because of setting alternate WRKDIR. Is this what WRKDIR is for? Is one of these ports not respecting WRKDIR, or maybe I am going about this the Wrong Way and if so can anyone recommend a Right Way? :stud
Thanks very much in advance for any suggestions or clarification!
I'm playing with speeding up building ports.
I want to see if there's any benefit to putting the "work" dir in memory.
I tried this, in /etc/make.conf
Code:
WRKDIR=/memdisk/portwork/memdisk is the mounted memory filesystem (mfs). /memdisk/portwork exists and is writable and all ... I was thinking that /memdisk/portwork would have subdirs for each port which is building. I tested it with a few ports and it seemed to work. Then I tried to build the x11-wm/hs-xmonad port. Built some deps including ghc fine ... but then it fails like this:
Code:
===> Returning to build of hs-mtl-2.0.1.0_1
===> Configuring for hs-mtl-2.0.1.0_1
cd: can't cd to /memdisk/portwork/mtl-2.0.1.0
*** Error code 2
Stop in /usr/ports/devel/hs-mtl.
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/ports/x11-wm/hs-xmonad.Okay, so it can't cd to /memdisk/portwork/mtl-2.0.1.0 ... which sounds reasonable as that dir did not exist when I looked for it immediately after the build failed. The thing is, I discovered that if I simply re-run make it works. Since I did not try to build this port's build dependencies before changing make.conf I do not know if the hiccup which requires that I run 'make' twice for hs-xmonad is because of setting alternate WRKDIR. Is this what WRKDIR is for? Is one of these ports not respecting WRKDIR, or maybe I am going about this the Wrong Way and if so can anyone recommend a Right Way? :stud
Thanks very much in advance for any suggestions or clarification!
