While following the steps from this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7vJJMU2gMn4 around 2:11, the video shows to run "make -j" in Ubuntu to start build. Since I'm using a Mac, I would like to know if there is any way that I can replace this commend. It seems "make" is a tool to install many packages in Ubuntu, which I think that can be replaced by "brew", but I'm not sure about the "-j" part. Thank you for your time and help!
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`make` is installed as part of **macOS** so it should be fine. The `-j` parameter only sets the degree of parallelism, i.e. the number of jobs to run in parallel and **macOS** *"understands"* that too. You can safely omit it if it is upsetting you and you don't mind waiting longer. Remember to install Xcode before you do any development on a Mac... https://stackoverflow.com/a/32338889/2836621 – Mark Setchell Jan 20 '20 at 19:21
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Just to note, it's not a good idea to use `-j` by itself. You should use a number there which corresponds roughly to the number of CPUs you have on your Mac, so something like `-j4` or `-j8`. – MadScientist Jan 20 '20 at 23:54
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That makes sense! Thank you all for your comments. :) – Jan 21 '20 at 10:22