On Fri, Mar 22, 2002 at 02:09:36PM +0000, Colm Buckley mentioned:
> On Friday 22 March 2002 14:04, John P. Looney wrote:
>> > Is there a nice way of making everything you build on an SMP system
> > use -j3 when possible ? I don't really want to go changing Makefiles
> > (as there are about a hundred packages that get compiled
> > frequently)....
>> > I'm thinking a global make config file that no one mentions...
>> "MAKEFLAGS=-j3" in your /etc/environment?
Nice one centurion, nice one. Does much stuff break when that happens ? I
know I've written crap Makefiles myself that broke with -j3 etc....just
wondering are there that many others as bad as me...
Kate
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