Re: [Patch #7327] Add the option -J / --auto-jobs to auto-decide a sane number of job slots

[Edward Welbourne]

> This patch adds the option -J / --auto-jobs, which uses the
> sysconf(_SC_NPROCESSORS_ONLN) function to decide the number of job
> slots to use.

This sounds like a highly useful feature to me.  I and my colleagues
use diverse clumsy rules of thumb to decide what value to give to -j
and -l; having a command-line option that knows how to Do The Right
Thing would be ideal - especially on our build farm, as Bjørn noted.

        Eddy.