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Fix macOS build instruction #1963

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Fix macOS build instructions
dmadhumithra1-glitch Nov 4, 2026
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Update setup-building.rst
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Expand Up @@ -204,10 +204,19 @@ do to get a pydebug build of CPython.
You might need to run ``make clean`` before or after re-running ``configure``
in a particular build directory.

Once ``configure`` is done, you can then compile CPython with::
Once ``configure`` is done, you can then compile CPython with:

$ make -s -j $(nproc)
.. tab:: Unix

.. code-block:: console

$ make -s -j $(nproc)

.. tab:: macOS

.. code-block:: console

$ make -s -j $(sysctl -n hw.logicalcpu)
This will build CPython with only warnings and errors being printed to
stderr. The ``-j`` argument means that :program:`make` will concurrently run
tasks, limiting the number of parallel jobs to the number of CPU cores in your
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