parallel build suggestion

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Apr 4, 2015, at 9:01 AM, René J.V. Bertin wrote:

> Besides (think of that what you like), I like to be able to see at a glance what setting I currently run (since one cannot override the variable on the commandline I do tailor it from time to time). And: I use the variable in my qt5-mac-devel port to force parallel building of the bootstrap phase. Is ${build.jobs} set to the actual number chosen when you set buildjobs=0?

build.jobs can indeed be specified on the command line. e.g. you can disable parallel building with:

sudo port install someport build.jobs=1