[106781] trunk/base/doc/macports.conf.in

[Lawrence Velázquez]

On Jun 8, 2013, at 3:40 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign at macports.org> wrote:

>> -# Lowered scheduling priority (0-20) to use for make when building ports
>> +# Lowered scheduling priority to use for make(1) during builds. Accepted
>> +# values are 0 (normal priority) through 20 (lowest priority).
>> #buildnicevalue		0
> 
> All commands run in the configure, build and destroot phases are given this nice value. It's not specific to make(1).

So I don't see any MacPorts-imposed limitations on nice value in the code. Could one use negative values if macportsuser is "root"? Is that even worth mentioning?

vq