[SM-Discuss] parallel build, when is JOBS non-empty?

Thomas Orgis thomas-forum at orgis.org
Fri Jan 8 09:33:14 EST 2010


Hi again... i had this question in the discussion about getting scons builds to use parallel processes:

> Thomas:

> Am Sat, 17 Oct 2009 20:40:47 +0200
> schrieb Jaka Kranjc <smgl at lynxlynx.info>: 

> > You can try using JOBS, which already has the number computed, but it can be 
> > unset - make -j means infinite jobs; I don't know if scons treats it the same 
> > way.  

> So, should I test if JOBS is non-empty and use it in that case? And under what circumstances is it not set?

Can this question be answered? I just encountered this while updating hydrogen, which, sadly, switched to scons now. JOBS seems to be empty for me... so something in default_build sets it?


Alrighty then,

Thomas.
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