[Interest] qmake: questions regarding huge projects

[Mandeep Sandhu]

qmake takes care of this (I think), i.e it'll find out the number of cores
and supply the relevant number to make's "-j" option.

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> No, qmake does not take care of this as qmake is not a buildsystem itself
> (rather a buildsystem generator, it generates Makefiles, VS files etc.).
> But of course a user can run make -j3 himself. make does not have any
> support for automatic parallel build based on the number of cores.
>

Yes, you're right. I guess one has to figure this out outside the build
system. You can probably pass the number of jobs to run via the MAKEFLAGS
variable.

HTH,
-mandeep


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> Andreas
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