Thanks for the responses. I guess you've convinced me that setting -j as a function of cores/hyperthreading is probably a bad idea.<div><br></div><div>Question: the gnu make man page and the info writeup are not clear on the effect of MAKEFLAGS. There's a lot of chatter about sub-makes, but it is not clear that</div>
<div><br></div><div>env MAKEFLAGS='-j 4' make</div><div><br></div><div>is equivalent to</div><div><br></div><div>make -j 4</div><div><br></div><div>If anyone knows definitively, plz let me know. Otherwise, I'll get the answer by experiment.</div>
<div><br></div><div>But if the above equivalence holds, then I agree that there's no need to modify the slackbuild scripts.</div><div><br></div><div>/Don</div><div><br><br></div>