On 27 Okt., 19:12, Volker Braun <vbraun.n...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, October 27, 2011 11:01:19 AM UTC-4, leif wrote:
> > Setting MAKE to "make -jN" when (re-)building Sage doesn't limit the
> > *total* number of build jobs to N;
>
> It does limit the total number of build jobs within the current make.

Provided the communication to the jobserver (through inherited file
descriptors, whose numbers are passed in MAKEFLAGS) isn't broken,
which currently apparently isn't always the case during the build.


> Of
> course it doesn't take into account make jobs that are run by different
> users, that run on different computers, that were invoked at a different
> time, etc.

:-) I thought the number referred to all simultaneous 'make' jobs in
the Milky Way.


-leif

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