(I submitted this patch a few months ago but since it has not recieved any attention I thought I'd try proposing it on this list.)
URL: http://savannah.gnu.org/patch/?7327 This patch adds the option -J / --auto-jobs, which uses the sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) function to decide the number of job slots to use. This is especially useful in distributed build farms, where you have a large set of different machines where you want to take advantage of all machines' multiprocessing cababilities without getting the memory penalty of unlimited -j. With -J we can set the flag in the Makefile and know each machine will do the best it can. Without -J we have to set a custom -j number in each and every box. -- Björn _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
