Re: make -j changed behaviour

Benjamin Redelings I (bredelin@UCSD.Edu)
Thu, 17 Sep 1998 10:54:42 -0700

This is a good thing. To get this behaviour before, you had to do:
MAKE='make -j4' make -j4
which was redundant.

Although, of course, you don't actually do just that. You also need to
use the '-l' flag: for example '-l4'. That will keep make from
spawninga new process if the load is > 4.

-BenRI

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