[30721] use_parallel_build / portfile-phase.7.xml

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Nov 5, 2007, at 2:30 PM, markd at macports.org wrote:
> Perhaps I was influenced by my recollections that some ports stop
> installing outside of the build phase until another port is finished
> installing.  At least I think I've seen this.

you have.

> If that is so and a ports
> hangs at activate or another phase until another port completes, it  
> seems
> like parallel building still wouldn't get parallel installs.


This option is not really related to that behavior.

It just allows a port to say that it can be built with make -j (which  
can speed up builds on multi-core or multi-cpu systems).
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