[petsc-dev] could we let "make -j N" work for PETSc and external packages?

[Jed Brown]

Fande Kong <Fande.Kong at inl.gov> writes:

> Thanks, Jed and Satish,
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> But "make -j N" does not change anything when compiling petsc.
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> If I do something like: "make -j whatever". Then I always get:
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> Using MAKEFLAGS: -j8 -l36.0 w
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> It looks like PETSc always uses "-j something" that we can not change using the command-line.
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> Is it a bug?

https://bitbucket.org/petsc/petsc/pull-requests/873/make-allow-j-options-in-top-level-makefile/diff