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Mon, 08 Jun 2009 22:20:32 +0000

[...] [1.1.7_509]please wait…Rating: 0.0/5 (0 votes cast) This article was found on Planet FreeBSD. Click here to visit the full article on the original website.Two days ago, I have checked in probably most requested feature of last few years. Ports framework [...]

Comment on Multi processor compilations for everyone by Daugiaprocesorinis port? kompiliavimas | FreeBSD.lt

Daugiaprocesorinis port? kompiliavimas | FreeBSD.lt — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 13:26:41 +0000

[...] Pla?iau [...]

Comment on Multi processor compilations for everyone by Petr

Petr — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 16:09:29 +0000

Very nice, thanks a lot!

Is there also parallelization of the port dependencies building planned?

Comment on Multi processor compilations for everyone by Prophet Isayuh

Prophet Isayuh — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 07:06:33 +0000

Any mention of *_MAKE_JOBS_* and whitelisted ports in ports(7)? No? That just ain’t right!

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neues aus alternativen, hochqualitativen Gefilden » F!XMBR — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:51:48 +0000

[...] not least: Multi processor compilations for everyone. Die Ports nutzen nun die Vorteile mehrerer Kerne vollautomatisiert. Realisiert wurde dies mittels [...]

Comment on Multi processor compilations for everyone by Oliver Herold

Oliver Herold — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:38:32 +0000

Great news, thanks for the steady work

Comment on Multi processor compilations for everyone by Rui Paulo

Rui Paulo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:41:16 +0000

This is great work! Thanks a lot for this!

Comment on Multi processor compilations for everyone by Compiler les ports sur plusieurs coeurs at FreeBSD-fr: Les nouvelles du géant en français

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:09:41 +0000

[...] les utilisateurs, comme l’explique pav sur son blog, cette fonctionnalité est activée de manière transparente pour les ports qui la gèrent. Un [...]

Comment on Firefox 3 cured by "hyperion"

"hyperion" — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:19:10 +0000

OK, I have dug up this bug report of mine against Solaris about the same issue in Google: http://defect.opensolaris.org/bz/show_bug.cgi?id=4043 (contains link to patch)

Comment on Firefox 3 cured by "hyperion"

"hyperion" — Sat, 13 Dec 2008 03:10:54 +0000

This is an age old bug in XAA that cairo brings out. Firefox 3 uses cairo. Recent Xorg releases contain a “fix” of disabling XAA offscreen pixmaps by default (Fedora’s idea). Causes no noticable slowdown. EXA offscreen pixmaps work fine, but some drivers still use XAA.

The FreeBSD PRs have been closed but this is in fact a very serious bug in Xorg, websites can spy on other windows contents, for example. FreeBSD should fix it in my opinion. Either patching Xorg or upgrading it to some newer release should work. Patches can be found in Red Hat/Novell/Ubuntu bugzillas, etc, or Google XaaNoOffscreenPixmaps or something, it’s a 1 line “fix”…

PS Interestingly, this is much less serious on FreeBSD than on Linux.