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<br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On May 25, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Brandon Allbery <<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" class="">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Jones <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk" target="_blank" class="">jonesc@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk</a>></span> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">you don’t. Its automatic for the ports that allow it.</blockquote></div><br class="">And this is also true, if that was not clear. Using multiple cores is *on by default*. You are already getting it, unless you at some point in the past overrode buildmakejobs in macports.conf.<br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">You can also manually change it for a single install, for example by using build.jobs. Such as:</div><div class="">sudo port install port_whatever_name build.jobs=4 </div><div class="">and then, for that specific install it will attempt to use 4 cores. This can be handy to reduce the number of cores used, from the default, so that you can do other things on the machine while building. </div></body></html>