Re: Building FFox

[Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost>]

On 26 October 2022 14:03:23 (+01:00), Greg Troxel wrote:

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> Chavdar Ivanov <ci4ic4%gmail.com@localhost> writes:
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> > On a tangent, yesterday evening I tried to build the latest firefox
> > and got a cargo error stating that I have multiple NJOBS settings on
> > the command line, apparently not acceptable by cargo. I had
> > MAKE_JOBS=1 (for some reason - that's another question) in my
> > /etc/mk.conf; when I took it away, the build carried over.
>
> That's a known bug that I thought was fixed.
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> My memory is fuzzy, but basically cargo is buggy in that by default it
> figures out how many CPUs and uses all of them, sort of -j`hw.ncpu`.
> And there is something that tries to pass -j for MAKE_JOBS=k, k!=1, and
> passes 1 is MAKE_JOBS is not set, and there's some corner case.
Looks like it - I have built firefox many times with MAKE_JOBS=4 
previously; I think this was the first time I tried with a single one. I 
guess on a 4core-8thread cpu cargo decides on 4 and that is the same as 
what it gets from mk.conf, so no conflict was detected. 

 
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Chavdar Ivanov