> On May 25, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Brandon Allbery <allber...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Jones <jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk > <mailto:jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk>> wrote: > you don’t. Its automatic for the ports that allow it. > > 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. > > -- You can also manually change it for a single install, for example by using build.jobs. Such as: sudo port install port_whatever_name build.jobs=4 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.
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