[toplevel patch] Up with parallelism!

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Jun 10, 2003, DJ Delorie <dj@delorie.com> wrote:

>> Hmm...  I'd be a bit more conservative, and keep the ability to ensure
>> serial-configure, for those who feel the need for it.  How about just
>> disabling it by default for now, and see whether anyone runs into a
>> problem?  We can always remove it later.

> They can just use "-j1" for that.

> I think this replicates the old functionality:

> $ make -j1 MAKE="make -j3"

Not quite.  It means every sub-make will get `make -j3', which
has explodes on me in certain cases.

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