[vlc-devel] [PATCH] tools: build cmake using multiple threads

[Rafaël Carré]

On 09/02/2016 16:52, Steve Lhomme wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 4:38 PM, Rafaël Carré <funman at videolan.org> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> On 09/02/2016 16:32, Steve Lhomme wrote:
>>
>>>  MAKEFLAGS += -j$CPUS
>>> +CMAKEFLAGS += --parallel=$CPUS
>>
>> What does --parallel do except changing MAKEFLAGS (which is already done) ?
> 
> MAKEFLAGS applies to the make process to build cmake. But that process
> uses CMake to build CMake (it first builds a tiny cmake using the
> regular make). The MAKEFLAG value is not used there from what I can
> see in CPU usage.

OK, so it's when configure script calls make itself.

That makes sense