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Mention "race conditions" in the section about MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE.

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The reason for this is to increase discoverability of MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE.

Reviewed by:	bcr, mat (previous version)
Approved by:	mat (mentor)
Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D17383
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Mateusz Piotrowski 2018-10-29 13:41:00 +00:00
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their available <acronym>CPU</acronym> power, allowing port
builds to be faster and more effective.</para>
<para>This is achieved by passing <varname>-jX</varname> flag
<para>This is achieved by passing <literal>-jX</literal> flag
to &man.make.1; running on vendor code. This is the default
build behavior of ports. Unfortunately, not all ports
handle parallel building well and it may be required to
explicitly disable this feature by adding the
<literal>MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE=yes</literal> variable. It is
used when a port is known to be broken with
<varname>-jX</varname>.</para>
<literal>-jX</literal> due to race conditions causing
intermittent build failures.</para>
<important>
<para>When setting <varname>MAKE_JOBS_UNSAFE</varname>, it