Multi-Threaded make

[Cameron Simpson]

On 28Nov2012 21:16, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
| On 11/28/2012 08:21 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote:
| > On 28Nov2012 15:37, JD <jd1008 at gmail.com> wrote:
| > | While building the kernel from source RPM, I run
| > | the command ps -ef | grep make in another terminal,
| > | and I do see that 4 make processes are running, with
| > | each one building objects for a different kernel source
| > | directory.
[...]
| > Is make running with the "-j 4" (or whatever value) option?
|
| I had already said that after running rpmbuild,
| ps -ef shows 4 make processes running.
| So, it must be picking up -j4 from somewhere,
| perhaps from one of the rpmbuild macros.

I neat failure to answer my question.
They could be submakes. Make's allow to invoke itself you know...

What options _is_ make using?
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Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

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