On Sep 25, 2010, at 10:29 AM, Ralph Castain wrote:
> What I was trying (poorly) to propose is that this capability be done the
> traditional way of an option. To mimic 'make', I propose that we add a -j
> option to autogen.pl. If a value is given, then that is the number of
> parallel automake jobs we run. If no value is given, then we use Jeff's
> heuristic to determine the number to run. Obviously, setting the
> automake_jobs envar will have the same effect as -j.
>
> This gives us the best of both worlds while not surprising users. I'd be
> willing to help implement it, Jeff.
I have no objection; should be easy to implement. The syntax to set an
environment variable in Perl is:
$ENV{AUTOMAKE_JOBS} = $value;
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