[30839] trunk/doc-new/man/xml/portfile-phase.7.xml

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Revision: 30839
          http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/changeset/30839
Author:   mww at macports.org
Date:     2007-11-08 02:17:41 -0800 (Thu, 08 Nov 2007)

Log Message:
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nit-pick on 'use_parallel_build [yes|no]'

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
===================================================================
--- trunk/doc-new/man/xml/portfile-phase.7.xml	2007-11-08 10:03:20 UTC (rev 30838)
+++ trunk/doc-new/man/xml/portfile-phase.7.xml	2007-11-08 10:17:41 UTC (rev 30839)
@@ -1800,13 +1800,13 @@
           <listitem>
             <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
+            its build phase. If a port is declared to be builadble this way,
+            the option <option>-j N</option> may be passed to the
+            <command>make</command> command if parallel builds are enabled
+            system-wide.  This can be obtained by setting
             <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>
+            <filename>macports.conf</filename>. The integer <option>N</option>
+            refers to the number of parallel build threads.
 
             <itemizedlist>
               <listitem>
@@ -2025,4 +2025,4 @@
 
     <para>Markus W. Weissmann <email>mww at macports.org</email></para>
   </refsection>
-</refentry>
\ No newline at end of file
+</refentry>

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