[TEST] make -j patch
    Doug White 
    dwhite at gumbysoft.com
       
    Tue Nov 16 12:05:56 PST 2004
    
    
  
On Thu, 11 Nov 2004, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
>
> This patch makes the '-j' argument to make(1) become a global limit
> on number of jobs launched for all submakes in the build.
>
> Today a "make -j 12" may start many more than 12 jobs because each
> submake interprets the 12 without reference to other makes.
Ah, this is the thing I've noticed with the rescue build where it create
-j^2 jobs. :)
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