Opened 6 years ago
#12465 new Feature Requests
Suggest promoting -j to "Important Options" in help output
| Reported by: | Phil Endecott | Owned by: | Vladimir Prus |
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| Milestone: | To Be Determined | Component: | build |
| Version: | Boost 1.61.0 | Severity: | Optimization |
| Keywords: | Cc: |
Description
Currently ./b2 --help doesn't mention -j; one has to ./b2 --help-options, which is described as "Print more obscure command line options".
Almost everyone has multi-CPU system these days (even in their phones!). Building Boost on one CPU would be a mistake. Maybe Boost.Build should default to using multiple processors. Failing that, the -jN option should be considered an "important" option and be mentioned more prominently. Wanting to use multiple CPUs is not "obscure" any more.
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