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rajhlinux

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Registered: 2022-07-08

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Tell "yay" AUR helper to build packages using multiple CPU cores?

Hello,

How can I write a command to tell "yay" (the AUR helper tool) to build packages using multiple cores?

It seems "yay" is only using 2 cores or less when building packages when I have 8 cores available.

How do I know if "yay" is utilizing all of the CPU cores?

I ask because packages are being built super slow, is this common with "yay"?

I entered (10 mins ago):

yay -s https://aur.archlinux.org/ffmpeg-amd-full-git.git

and it is still building the package, which is way too long from my experience in manually installing them.

Thanks.

Last edited by rajhlinux (2022-07-09 06:12:44)

jasonwryan

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Re: Tell "yay" AUR helper to build packages using multiple CPU cores?

Yay doesn'tbuild anything. Learn how the Arch build process actually works:
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Makepk … ompilation

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Re: Tell "yay" AUR helper to build packages using multiple CPU cores?

Mod note: moving to AUR Issues

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JaydenDev

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Re: Tell "yay" AUR helper to build packages using multiple CPU cores?

This is entirely dependent on the maintainers PKGBUILD. So it's building from git, the build commands in the PKGBUILD are probably building the software in a predefined about of cores.

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loqs

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Re: Tell "yay" AUR helper to build packages using multiple CPU cores?

This is entirely dependent on the maintainers PKGBUILD.

No.  Please reread the link Jason provided.