[30827] trunk/doc-new/man/xml/portfile-phase.7.xml

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Revision: 30827
          http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/30827
Author:   markd at macports.org
Date:     2007-11-07 18:24:13 -0800 (Wed, 07 Nov 2007)

Log Message:
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Document the changes in r30737.

Modified Paths:
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    trunk/doc-new/man/xml/portfile-phase.7.xml

Modified: trunk/doc-new/man/xml/portfile-phase.7.xml
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--- trunk/doc-new/man/xml/portfile-phase.7.xml	2007-11-08 00:26:35 UTC (rev 30826)
+++ trunk/doc-new/man/xml/portfile-phase.7.xml	2007-11-08 02:24:13 UTC (rev 30827)
@@ -1353,7 +1353,8 @@
           <term>configure.bison</term>
 
           <listitem>
-            <para>Set BISON flag for selecting a bison executable, a parser generator</para>
+            <para>Set BISON flag for selecting a bison executable, a parser
+            generator</para>
 
             <itemizedlist>
               <listitem>
@@ -1373,7 +1374,8 @@
           <term>configure.pkg_config</term>
 
           <listitem>
-            <para>Set PKG_CONFIG flag for helping find pkg_config, a tool for retrieving information about installed libraries.</para>
+            <para>Set PKG_CONFIG flag for helping find pkg_config, a tool for
+            retrieving information about installed libraries.</para>
 
             <itemizedlist>
               <listitem>
@@ -1393,7 +1395,8 @@
           <term>configure.pkg_config_path</term>
 
           <listitem>
-            <para>Set PKG_CONFIG_PATH flag for telling pkg_config where to search for information about installed libraries.</para>
+            <para>Set PKG_CONFIG_PATH flag for telling pkg_config where to
+            search for information about installed libraries.</para>
 
             <itemizedlist>
               <listitem>
@@ -1795,10 +1798,15 @@
           <term>use_parallel_build</term>
 
           <listitem>
-            <para>This keyword is for specifying if it is safe for a port to
-            use multiple cpus or multiple cores in parallel during its build
-            phase. This keyword uses the gcc option <code>make
-            -j</code>.</para>
+            <para>This keyword is for specifying whether or not it is safe for
+            a port to use multiple cpus or multiple cores in parallel during
+            its build phase. This keyword passes the <option>-j</option>
+            <varname>[jobs]</varname> option to <command>make</command>, where
+            <varname>jobs</varname> is obtained from the variable
+            <varname>buildmakejobs</varname> in
+            <filename>macports.conf</filename>. This variable may also be set
+            to 0 so the number of jobs is set to the number of cores detected
+            during the build phase.</para>
 
             <itemizedlist>
               <listitem>
@@ -2017,4 +2025,4 @@
 
     <para>Markus W. Weissmann <email>mww at macports.org</email></para>
   </refsection>
-</refentry>
+</refentry>
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