On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 1:29 PM, Fabian Groffen <grob...@gentoo.org> wrote: > On 14-12-2016 13:01:16 -0500, Doug Freed wrote: >> On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 12:48 PM, Nathan Zachary >> <nathanzach...@gentoo.org> wrote: >> > On 14/12/16 10:11, Doug Freed wrote: >> >>> I somehow doubt that would give me the expected number only, and I lack >> >>> a BSD install handy to test it. >> >> $(sysctl -n hw.ncpu) >> >> >> > I don't know that the sysctl command works universally: >> > >> > # sysctl -n hw.ncpu >> > sysctl: cannot stat /proc/sys/hw/ncpu: No such file or directory >> > >> >> It's BSD-specific (Darwin may have it too, but I'm not in OS X at the >> moment, so I can't check), which pretty much describes this branch in >> the codepath as well. Linux users will have the nproc command from >> coreutils. > > Yes, Darwin has it too, but the tool lives in /usr/sbin instead: > > https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/proj/prefix.git/tree/scripts/bootstrap-prefix.sh#n1987 >
Seems like we could borrow that code for the eclass, with some minor modifications. It should probably use ${CBUILD:-${CHOST}} to cover cross-compiling. Another alternative would be to check the userland_BSD and userland_GNU use flags.