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Fix macOS build instructions
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Revert unrelated changes.

.. _setup:

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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:

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Why the change to configure?


$ 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
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