RE: Is parallelism (-j#) available?

[Rinehart, Raleigh]

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> Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2011 11:48 AM
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> Subject: Is parallelism (-j#) available?
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> We typically run our builds using 'make -j16' and we have several internal
> programs that need to know what level of parallelism was specified.  We're
> using Makefiles (more specifically, Automake Makefile.am's), but I wouldn't
> expect the -j to be available as a Makefile variable.  So the question is: how
> can I get that -j16 within my Makefile?
> 
> Thanks,
> Justin

Hi Justin,
This question was asked and answered a few months back.
Short answer is: there is no way within GNU make to get that info.

However could you wrap things with shell scripts and use shell variables to 
achieve what you want? 

-raleigh