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Follow on from#1541.

If a macOS user does not have coreutils installed (for example, via Homebrew) then$(nproc) can fail:

❯make -j$(nproc)zsh: command not found: nproc./python.exe -E ./Tools/build/generate-build-details.py `cat pybuilddir.txt`/build-details.jsonChecked 113 modules (35 built-in, 78 shared, 0 n/a on macosx-15.4-arm64, 0 disabled, 0 missing, 0 failed on import)

We want these instructions to work without further assistance for a beginner.

And I do have coreutils installed on my other machine, but not on this one.

j8 seems a reasonable number for macOS, all new Macs seem to be at least 10, and the M1 was at least 8.

📚 Documentation preview 📚:https://cpython-devguide--1545.org.readthedocs.build/