use of cpus in building

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Comer Duncan <comer.duncan at gmail.com>
wrote:

> I am wondering whether the macports build system automatically uses as
> many cpus as are installed?  I have a macbook pro with 4 cores and would
> hope I can help speed up builds by making all four cores be used.  Am I
> dreaming?


MacPorts does builds with "make -j" (defaulting to one job per core) except
where ports specifically override it because they are known to not build
correctly in parallel.

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