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Though, it might be nice to expand a bit, saying that the failures can be intermittent, or something.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 3 2018, 8:44 AM
In D17383#370947, @mat wrote:

Though, it might be nice to expand a bit, saying that the failures can be intermittent, or something.

@mat, how about something like:

It is used when a port is known to be broken with <varname>-jX</varname> due to race conditions causing intermittent build failures.

  • Improve the description (as requested by @mat).
  • Use <literal> instead of <varname> for options similarly to how --with-xxx is formated later on in the handbook.
This revision now requires review to proceed.Oct 26 2018, 3:04 PM

Approved for commit. Thanks for reminding.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 29 2018, 1:29 PM
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