From: Stuart Henderson Subject: disable parallel make for "fake" To: ports Date: Mon, 30 Mar 2026 11:09:50 +0100 Some ports are happy to _build_ in parallel, but fail during "make fake". For example, vim and php. We used to have a separate PARALLEL_INSTALL variable controlling whether parallel flags were passed through there, added in r1.920, removed in r1.1510. I'm not convinced that parallel fake is enough of a win to be worth restricting the number of ports that can use parallel build so I'd like to remove it. (Apart from rare semi-broken ports which do a chunk of compilation during "make fake", it's mostly going to be filesystem access which doesn't parallelize brilliantly on OpenBSD at present anyway). Any OKs or objections to disabling it, so that MAKE_JOBS is only passed through by infrastructure for build/test? (If there's some individual port which would really benefit from parallel install, it could always add to FAKE_FLAGS itself). Index: bsd.port.mk =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/ports/infrastructure/mk/bsd.port.mk,v diff -u -p -r1.1647 bsd.port.mk --- bsd.port.mk 17 Jan 2026 22:30:08 -0000 1.1647 +++ bsd.port.mk 30 Mar 2026 09:47:11 -0000 @@ -488,7 +488,8 @@ MAKE_JOBS ?= 1 .if ${MAKE_JOBS} != 1 MAKE_FLAGS += ${PARALLEL_MAKE_FLAGS} -ALL_FAKE_FLAGS += ${PARALLEL_MAKE_FLAGS} +# various ports work with parallel build but fail with parallel install +#ALL_FAKE_FLAGS += ${PARALLEL_MAKE_FLAGS} .endif # Here comes the part that sets BUILD_PACKAGES and various IGNORE* up.