Why does Macports take FOREVER to build simple packages?

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ennuikiller picture ennuikiller · Aug 29, 2009 · Viewed 23.7k times · Source

Building from source outside of macports is a breeze. Building with macports takes forever and seems to freeze the os every so often. Is this typical behavior? Although it seems like a nice packaging tool for os x, if I have to go through this pain every time during every install I think I'll do without it.

Answer

galaxywatcher picture galaxywatcher · Nov 25, 2009

If you are running on an Intel Core 2 Duo you can double the speed of your builds by changing the Macports config option located here:

/opt/local/etc/macports/macports.conf

# Number of simultaneous make jobs (commands) to use when building ports
buildmakejobs       2

I was kicking myself when I discovered this AFTER I rebuilt gcc ;)

This option will allow you to use both cpu's for building packages.

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