On Mon, May 11, 2020 at 02:02:50PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > On Mon, 2020-05-11 at 10:20 +0200, Erik Skultety wrote: > > On Thu, May 07, 2020 at 06:53:12PM +0200, Andrea Bolognani wrote: > > > +export MAKEFLAGS="-j$(getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN)" > > > > By the way, do you happen to know where the _NPROCESSORS_ONLN came from? I mean > > the only trace of it was the system config constant _SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN which > > the getconf one will be translated to, I was just confused where shorter name > > came from, since it's not documented in any of the man pages (or it may be, but > > I don't have that specific man page installed). > > No idea, but it's used quite extensively in our GitLab CI > configurations and I've verified it also works on FreeBSD... > > If you find the other variant is preferable for whatever reason, > we can always change it :) We cant', because getconf doesn't accept it in the system constant form, that's the puzzling part for me, your patch is the correct approach. -- Erik Skultety