<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On 25 May 2016, at 10:06 pm, Comer Duncan <<a href="mailto:comer.duncan@gmail.com" class="">comer.duncan@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Hi Brandon,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So, where to I set 'make -j 4' so I get ports to try with 4 cores?</div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div>you don’t. Its automatic for the ports that allow it.</div><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Comer</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Brandon Allbery <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">allbery.b@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="gmail_extra"><span class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Comer Duncan <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:comer.duncan@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">comer.duncan@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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?</blockquote></div><br class=""></span>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.<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888" class=""><br clear="all" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div>-- <br class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates</div><div class=""><a href="mailto:allbery.b@gmail.com" target="_blank" class="">allbery.b@gmail.com</a> <a href="mailto:ballbery@sinenomine.net" target="_blank" class="">ballbery@sinenomine.net</a></div><div class="">unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad <a href="http://sinenomine.net/" target="_blank" class="">http://sinenomine.net</a></div></div></div>
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