Re: Dynamic adjustments of build dependencies for the number of available processors

[Paul Smith]

On Sat, 2015-01-03 at 20:23 +0100, SF Markus Elfring wrote:
> I would like to use all processor cores for a software build.
> So I try to reuse a corresponding system setting by a command
> like "getconf _NPROCESSORS_ONLN" in recipes for a make file.
> 
> A bit of build preparation needs to be performed in a serial
> way before I can begin the desired parallel data processing
> with starting of some single-threaded programs for
> background execution.
> 
> Such a system setting can vary during the run time of the
> affected computing environment.
> So I need to be flexible with the specification of input and
> output parameters for these programs. But I see some software
> development challenges for this use case.

I'm sorry but I don't really understand what you're trying to do.
Perhaps if you provided a concrete example it would help.