On Sun, Apr 1, 2012 at 12:59 AM, David C. Rankin <drankinatty@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Guys, > > Is there any way to check the number of cores on a machine to set the number > of jobs within a PKGBUILD?: > > make -j'X' > > I have some dual-core and some quad-core boxes and the difference between -j2 > and -j4 on build time is tremendous. However, for generically creating a source > package to be used by someone else, I can't hardcode the jobs number. Anyway to > test in pkgbuild or is this just a per box makepkg.conf issue? > > -- > David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. i am not sure why are you trying to do it in PKGBUILD. if you have several machines that you want to have different settings, why not set /etc/makepkg.conf or $HOME/.makepkg.conf separately? anyway, i think the following command can easily get the information you need: grep -c processor /proc/cpuinfo
