Automatically setting jobs (-j) flag for a multicore machine?

I’m assuming you’re using Linux. This is from my ~/.bashrc # parallel make export NUMCPUS=`grep -c ‘^processor’ /proc/cpuinfo` alias pmake=”time nice make -j$NUMCPUS –load-average=$NUMCPUS” sample usage samm@host src> echo $NUMCPUS 8 samm@host src> pmake becomes time nice make -j8 –load-average=8. To answer your specific question about putting this into a Makefile, I don’t find it … Read more