Multi-Threaded make

[Cameron Simpson]

On 29Nov2012 19:11, Gabriel VLASIU <gabriel at vlasiu.net> wrote:
| On Thu, 29 Nov 2012, JD wrote:
| > That does not make sense.
| :-)
| 
| > I have a unicore!! An old Athlon64 3700+,
| In this case %{?_smp_mflags} is expanded to "-j1" or "" and you will have 
| exactly only one "cc1".
| 
| Just run: rpmbuild -E '%{?_smp_mflags}' and see for yourself on the first 
| line in terminal!
| 
| > and yet ps -ef shows up to 4 makes running at a time.
| Read the previous mail again.

Maybe he should run:

  ps axf
or
  pstree

and see it that tells him anything about parallel or parent-child.
He's clearly unwilling to take lack of a "-j blah" option to be a clue.
-- 
Cameron Simpson <cs at zip.com.au>

The fortunate man knows how much he can safely leave to chance.
        - Lady Barbara Hornblower