In message <20041116120515.J13866_at_carver.gumbysoft.com>, Doug White writes: >On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > >> >> This patch makes the '-j' argument to make(1) become a global limit >> on number of jobs launched for all submakes in the build. >> >> Today a "make -j 12" may start many more than 12 jobs because each >> submake interprets the 12 without reference to other makes. > >Ah, this is the thing I've noticed with the rescue build where it create >-j^2 jobs. :) -j^(depth of directories) actually, but that is even worse. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk_at_FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.Received on Tue Nov 16 2004 - 20:46:10 UTC
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