Can the port command take advantage of multiple cores?

Anders F Björklund afb at macports.org
Sun Feb 3 08:26:41 PST 2008


James Sumners wrote:

> It looks to me like all you have to do is set "buildmakejobs" to the
> number of jobs you want make to use. I assume port will then use that
> many jobs when a portfile allows it.

The number of build jobs is ignored, until the port says that it works.
(otherwise the above is right, you can also say "0" to mean "# of 
cores")

Setting of "makefile_isnt_buggy" was renamed to "use_parallel_build"...

--anders



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