* Manual.

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</varlistentry> </varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><literal>system</literal></term>
<listitem><para>This option specifies the canonical Nix system
name of the current installation, such as
<literal>i686-linux</literal> or
<literal>powerpc-darwin</literal>. Nix can only build derivations
whose <literal>system</literal> attribute equals the value
specified here. In general, it never makes sense to modify this
value from its default, since you can use it to lie about the
platform you are building on (e.g., perform a Mac OS build on a
Linux machine; the result would obviously be wrong). It only
makes sense if the Nix binaries can run on multiple platforms,
e.g., universal binaries that run on <literal>powerpc-darwin</literal> and
<literal>i686-darwin</literal>.</para>
<para>It defaults to the canonical Nix system name detected by
<filename>configure</filename> at build time.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist> </variablelist>

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<term><option>-j</option></term> <term><option>-j</option></term>
<listitem><para>Sets the maximum number of build jobs that Nix will <listitem><para>Sets the maximum number of build jobs that Nix will
perform in parallel to the specified number. The default is 1. A perform in parallel to the specified number. The default is
higher value is useful on SMP systems or to exploit I/O latency.</para></listitem> specified by the <link
linkend='conf-build-max-jobs'><literal>build-max-jobs</literal></link>
configuration setting, which itself defaults to
<literal>1</literal>. A higher value is useful on SMP systems or to
exploit I/O latency. </para></listitem>
</varlistentry> </varlistentry>