Hi Jakub,
>> > So, something similar to what your patch does, but don't substitute the
>> > actual
>> > CPU count, but a command to determine the number of CPUs?
>>
>> I'm not convinced that would work reliably: you can easily have one set
>> of commands on one machine, but a slightly different one on another. If
>> we really want to go this route, that means extracting the autoconf
>> macro's logic into a separate script and use that at make check time.
>> Not sure if that's worth the effort, especially since we're not really
>> interested in the exact number of cores, just small (<= 8) vs. large (> 8).
>
> Ok, so can we do a middle-ground, instead of the current change to
> Makefile.am just replace the two spots that do num_cpus=1 with
> num_cpus=@CPU_COUNT@
> and keep the getconf invocation in there? On Linux it will do what it used
> to do, and on targets that don't support getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN it will
> use a configure time determined value?
fine with me. I'll send an updated patch after testing.
Rainer
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Rainer Orth, Center for Biotechnology, Bielefeld University
