On Mon, Oct 30 2017, Tim Murphy wrote: > For my money -j is always a top-level setting. To have it per makefile > and then let makefiles depend on that behaviour would open the door to lots > of scary bugs.
I'm beginning to agree with this perspective. The "-j" setting is not really a function of the code, it is a function of the hardware that make is being run on. So I should set MAKEFLAGS=-j8 in my environment instead of if the Makefile. Maybe we just need to change the documentation... Thanks, NeilBrown
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