Actually a gnu Make question (re "-j" parallel)

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From: David Wuertele
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1993 09:08

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If this is a bad place for questions about gnu make, please redirect me.

I have a nice bulging network of sparc stations, and all of them are single
processor.  I would like to use the gnu make "-j" option that runs jobs in
parallel, but it appears that this only works on a single computer.  I mean, if
I ran "make -j" and there were a lot of parallel things to do, they would all
be done as child processes of the make process, all running on the same
computer.  This takes more time than if I had run them in the normal, serial,
manner.

Is there a way to take advantage of the fact that I have a bunch of networked
stations?  I would like to run as many parallel jobs as I have stations, if
possible.

Thanks,
Dave

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