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authorLoïc Hoguin <[email protected]>2018-11-28 15:33:45 +0100
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@@ -25,6 +25,20 @@ and conventions. Most of the conventions come from Erlang/OTP
itself so any seasoned Erlang developers should feel right at
home.
+Erlang.mk supports multi-threaded building. Parallel execution
+is supported for all targets. To execute Erlang.mk in parallel
+the `-j` option must be used:
+
+[source,bash]
+$ make -j8
+
+The `MAKEFLAGS` variable can be used to enable parallel
+building permanently on your system. It can be set in
+your `.zshrc`, `.bashrc` or equivalent file.
+
+[source,bash]
+MAKEFLAGS="-j8"
+
=== What to build
Erlang.mk gives you control over three steps of the build