On 1 April 2012 10:59, 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? > I had this for a one-fit Arch UFD: CPUCORES=$(grep processor /proc/cpuinfo | wc -l) [ $CPUCORES -gt 1 ] && MAKEFLAGS="-j$(($CPUCORES + 1))" But that's in makepkg.conf :) You shouldn't enforce this from within a PKGBUILD. -- GPG/PGP ID: C0711BF1
