Can the port command take advantage of multiple cores?

[Yves de Champlain]

Le 08-02-02 à 13:53, skip at pobox.com a écrit :

> As the subject says, can I take advantage my my shiny new dual-core  
> MacBook
> Pro?  Something like "port install -j2"?

The answer is yes and no ...

$prefix/etc/macports/macports.conf lets you specify a -j arg.

However, macports will not use it unless the Portfile says it'S OK to  
do so with each specific port.  Now, very few (almost none) Portfiles  
have this flag defined.  It's just too bad because most ports will  
build fine with -j > 1 (I have tried over 150 ports with -j 8 and 5  
have failed because of that, mostly in the destroot phase).

yves