[Qt-creator] parallel processing in make

[Kai Koehne]

On 7/16/2010 3:09 AM, ext Carter, Nathan wrote:
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> Is there a way to tell Creator to use "make -j N" for some N in all projects?  I know that I can change it on a per-project basis, but since it's a value that's pretty much just contingent on how many cores my machine has, I'd like to just say "please use all cores all the time."
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> I couldn't find this in the options.  Did I miss it or should I file a request for it?
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> (Or I could set MAKEFLAGS="-j 4" in my environment, but I guess I'm not sure where Qt Creator gets its environment from in OS X, when launched from Finder rather than the command line...maybe from my bash .profile??  I have no idea.)

Google is your friend :) Setting them in ~/.MacOSX/environment.plist 
worked for me in the past (although I just learned that it might fail if 
you start QtCreator from Spotlight).

I think this is really something you want to set system-wide / per user, 
and not somewhere inside QtCreator.

Kai
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