Can the port command take advantage of multiple cores?

[Ryan Schmidt]

On Feb 3, 2008, at 10:26, Anders F Björklund wrote:

> 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"...

Thanks, everyone. I also checked out the code to confirm that it does  
work this way.

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/browser/trunk/base/src/ 
port1.0/portbuild.tcl

I filed a ticket to request it be documented in the guide.

http://trac.macosforge.org/projects/macports/ticket/14164