Re: number of processors

[Philip Willoughby]

Today, Ralf Corsepius wrote:

>I.e. instead of trying to detect the number of processes, I'd recommend
>to tell users to run
>make -j <what-the-user-wants>

I agree, in general, but it might be nice to add the support as an option
(see attached).

Note that the attached macro doesn't enable parallel building as yet -- I
don't know enough of make on different systems to be able to check for
parallel build capabilities so someone who does will have to do that.

Regards,

Philip Willoughby

Systems Programmer, Department of Computing, Imperial College, London, UK
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Description: AC_PROG_MAKE_PARALLEL macro