Re: make: dynamic scaling of maxJobs ?

[Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>]

On Fri, 02 Aug 2013, Simon Gerraty wrote:
> Rather than add a lot of complexity to make to address this, I decided
> to let it use an external tool.
> Eg.
>
> make -j /opt/bin/maxJobs.sh
>
> and make will run that to get an initial value, and re-run it
> occasionally to adjust.

I sometimes use wrapper scripts that run make -j $(choose_maxjobs.sh).
Is it really worthwhile to add the complexity to make itself, instead
of leaving it in a wrapper script?

--apb (Alan Barrett)