Re: default number of JOBS

[David Boyce]

On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 9:44 AM, David Boyce<address@hidden> wrote:
> ...

Just to continue a little farther - I'm sure there are many legitimate
special circumstances. You, for instance, may have a dedicated server
on which you've determined the magic number to be 6. You may know that
you own all the cycles on this machine and that your application or
build can only run there. So there's nothing wrong with wanting to
hard wire defaults in such circumstances, but these would be
exceptional cases and unlikely to be directly supported by GNU make.

BTW, I believe you could export MAKEFLAGS="-j 6" (put it in .profile
or whatever) and get the effect you want.

It's interesting that GNU make doesn't support a .makerc file in the
traditional way. I'm sure there's a long history of discussion and
debate on that topic but I'm not familiar with it.

David Boyce