Re: __make (was Re: Use of %{__*} macros)

[Bo Forslund <bo forslund abc se>]

Jeff Johnson wrote:

> First of all many, many packages will not rebuild with "make -j". And,
> if the package was known to build with -j, there's certainly no reason
> the spec file couldn't discover the # of cpu's in %build and invoke
> make appropriately. What, a packager can't write 4 lines of shell?
>
> But, yes, %{__make} could be used to hide the -j.

Why not use the  %make macro. It will use every available processor on the
building machine.

It will do

    make -j <number-of-available-cpus>

BF