[Qt-creator] parallel processing in make

[eike.ziller at nokia.com]

On Jul 16, 2010, at 3:49 AM, ext Coda Highland wrote:

> I can't imagine why Creator couldn't guess at a default value anyway;
> just ask QThreadPool what the ideal number of threads is. :P

Actually I can't imagine why make couldn't guess at a default value by checking the number of cores :P

(Our little project ibjom, a replacement for nmake on Windows, does exactly that.)

Br, Eike

> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 8:09 PM, Carter, Nathan <NCARTER at bentley.edu> wrote:
>> 
>> 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."
>> 
>> I couldn't find this in the options.  Did I miss it or should I file a request for it?
>> 
>> (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.)
>> 
>> Nathan
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