portmaster and make options

[tanked]

Hello,

I'm trying to pass make options when I use portmaster to build ports; according to the man page you use the -m option so in order to specify the number of jobs for make I tried the following:

portmaster -m j4 -d -p /path/to/port

however this doesn't work - can anyone tell me the correct syntax?

 

[phoenix]

Does it work if you put quotes around the option, and include the - like so:
# portmaster -m "-j4" -d /path/to/port

 

[tanked]

Thanks phoenix I just figured it out myself a couple of minutes ago - I was trying to install the zsh shell and the following command 'sort of' worked

portmaster -m -j4 -p /usr/ports/shells/zsh

I say 'sort of' because when the port build presents the graphical config screen, using TAB to get to the OK button doesn't work so I can't get past there. Leaving out the make options allows the port to build normally :\

 

[phoenix]

Forgot to mention this above: You shouldn't specify -j when building ports. The ports tree supports -j internally for the build target (the only target that actually compiles anything). Have a search for MAKE_JOBS on the -ports mailing list for more details on how it all works.