Re: use of cpus in building

Thanks Justin for the perspective! This 'thread' has helped me a lot in understanding some aspects of the ins and outs of using more cores and more threads. Comer On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 6:07 PM, Justin C. Walker wrote: > > On May 25, 2016, at 14:42 , Adam Dershowitz wrote: > > > > > > > > >>

Re: use of cpus in building

Thanks! I like this option for those builds I do as a one-off. Comer On Wednesday, May 25, 2016, Adam Dershowitz wrote: > > > > On May 25, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Brandon Allbery > wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Jones < > jon...@hep.phy.cam.ac.uk > > wrote: >> >> you don’t.

Re: use of cpus in building

On May 25, 2016, at 14:42 , Adam Dershowitz wrote: > > > >> On May 25, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: >> >> On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Jones > > wrote: >> you don’t. Its automatic for the ports that allow it. >> >> And this is als

Re: use of cpus in building

> On May 25, 2016, at 5:25 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Jones > 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 > d

Re: use of cpus in building

Ok. Thanks for the info! Comer On Wednesday, May 25, 2016, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Jones < > 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 mu

Re: use of cpus in building

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:22 PM, Christopher Jones 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 ma

Re: use of cpus in building

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:06 PM, Comer Duncan wrote: > So, where to I set 'make -j 4' so I get ports to try with 4 cores? "buildmakejobs" in /opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com

Re: use of cpus in building

> On 25 May 2016, at 10:06 pm, Comer Duncan wrote: > > Hi Brandon, > > So, where to I set 'make -j 4' so I get ports to try with 4 cores? you don’t. Its automatic for the ports that allow it. > > Comer > > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Brandon Allbery > wrot

Re: use of cpus in building

Hi Brandon, So, where to I set 'make -j 4' so I get ports to try with 4 cores? Comer On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:03 PM, Brandon Allbery wrote: > On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Comer Duncan > wrote: > >> I am wondering whether the macports build system automatically uses as >> many cpus as are

Re: use of cpus in building

On Wed, May 25, 2016 at 5:00 PM, Comer Duncan wrote: > 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? MacPorts

use of cpus in building

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? Thanks for your help. Comer ___

Re: Quartz vs x11: Inaccessible package meld

> On 24 May 2016, at 16:12, Ryan Schmidt wrote: > >> >> On May 23, 2016, at 10:15 AM, Peter Brommer wrote: >> [..] > >> However, I’ve recently found that I now cannot install meld, as meld somehow >> depends on gtksourceview for which gtk2 needs to be installed in the +quartz >> variant: >>