Re: Transfering parallelism to sub-makes explicitly

[John Graham-Cumming]

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David Wuertele wrote:
| This works great for me, except for one situation:  I can't figure out
how to
| explicitly pass down my "-j N" values to submakes.  There doesn't seem
to be a
| single make variable which contains the value of "N".  I would like to do
| something like this:
|
|   unexport $(.VARIABLES)
|
|   SOMEVARIABLE := # ????
|
|   target:
|           $(MAKE) -j $(SOMEVARIABLE) target
|
| How do I set SOMEVARIABLE so that my sub-make gets the same "-j N"
that the
| top-level got?

Why do you want to do this?   If you specify -j N on the top-level make
then all sub-makes will run in parallel because of the jobserver feature
and hence you don't need to pass -j N down.

John.

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