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. On Feb 3, 2008 11:03 AM, Ryan Schmidt <ryandesign@macports.org> wrote:
On Feb 2, 2008, at 18:08, skip@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?
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