Can the port command take advantage of multiple cores?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 2, 2008, at 18:08, skip at pobox.com wrote:

>
>     Ryan> As ports are tested, "use_parallel_build yes" is added to  
> the
>     Ryan> portfile. Then MacPorts will build those ports using -j$jobs
>     Ryan> (where $jobs is the number of CPU cores in your  
> computer). This
>     Ryan> was added for MacPorts 1.6.
>
> Excellent, thanks.  That makes it transparent even. ;-)


Well, that's what I thought happened. But now others are saying  
there's an option in macports.conf that needs to be set. Can someone  
please clarify? Is there an option, and if so, what does it need to  
be set to?