<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On Dec 16, 2011, at 6:00 PM, Sean Callanan wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; ">make -j8<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span></span></blockquote></div><br><div>Instead of hardcoding in the -j8 you may wish to use something like:</div><div><br></div><div>SYSCTL=`sysctl -n hw.ncpu`</div><div><br></div><div>and then use $SYSCTL in place of the 8. This will only work on darwin, but it's probably better than guessing and there are similar things for most unixes. :)</div><div><br></div><div>-eric</div></body></html>