Can the port command take advantage of multiple cores?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 3, 2008, at 18:48, Vincent Lefevre wrote:

> On 2008-02-02 17:45:35 -0600, Ryan Schmidt wrote:
>
>> Not exactly. Not all software supports parallel building. Each  
>> port must
>> be tested to ensure that it works. As ports are tested,
>> "use_parallel_build yes" is added to the portfile. Then MacPorts will
>> build those ports using -j$jobs (where $jobs is the number of CPU  
>> cores
>> in your computer). This was added for MacPorts 1.6.
>
> Is there any reason why this option isn't documented in the
> portfile(7) man page?


You could file a ticket to get it added to the manpage. Though I  
thought our manpages were out of date anyway, since we're not yet  
shipping the new manpages built with our new documentation system,  
due to some problem or other.