make -j changed behaviour

Dave Airlie (airlied@skynet.csn.ul.ie)
Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:38:30 +0100 (IST)

Hi,
I've been changing the MAKE variable in my makefile to make -j 4
for a long time now ... I recently went to 2.1.117 and the behaviour I
used to get from make -j has changed .. it used to only parallel make
inside sub-dirs so I only ever had 4 gcc's going now it parallel makes
sub-dirs as well as contents .. which is a bit destructive for me poor
P-60 I can potentially have 16 compiles ..

Ah well .. I'll just have to get a faster machine :-)

Dave.

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