Considering that Apple will likely be announcing dual quad core
systems in the near future, I wonder if fink should adopt some
policy on packaging that utilizes the extra cores. Specifically
if we should have two changes. One would be a setting in fink.conf
which would either allow fink to use
Considering that Apple will likely be announcing dual quad core
systems in the near future, I wonder if fink should adopt some policy
on packaging that utilizes the extra cores. Specifically if we should
have two changes. One would be a setting in fink.conf which would
either allow fink to
David,
What I am suggesting is not quite making the packages
build as multi-procs by default by rather allow certain
very large packages (like gcc42) do so if the user
consents. Also, I'm not suggesting injecting MAKEFLAGS
into the user environment. What I was suggesting that
the user have veto
I've been doing this:
eg (from cctbx):
# Find the number of cpus:
num_cpu=$( sysctl hw.logicalcpu | awk '{print $NF}' )
# On a machine with multiple CPUs enter:
libtbx.scons -j $num_cpu .
So far no one has complained, so I am hoping it is legal...
(It doesn't ask permission.)
Bill
