On Tue, 24 Sep 2019 16:29:58 -0700 Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > While sphinx 1.7 and later supports "-jauto" for parallelism, this > effectively ignores the "-j" flag used in the "make" invocation, which > may cause confusion for build systems. Instead, extract the available > parallelism from "make"'s job server (since it is not exposed in any > special variables) and use that for the "sphinx-build" run. Now things > work correctly for builds where -j is specified at the top-level: > > make -j16 htmldocs > > If -j is not specified, continue to fallback to "-jauto" if available. > > Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@xxxxxxxxxxxx> I finally messed with this a bit; it seems to do exactly what's written on the box. It seems to me that The Real Solution™ here is to send a patch to the Sphinx folks adding a "-jgmake" (or some such) option. It also seems to me that none of us is likely to get around to that in the near future. So I just applied this, thanks for dealing with all my picky comments... jon
