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> I don't know how many hours the author has spent/wasted > on this topic The author, John Graham-Cumming, has been extremely active on the GNU Make mailin

by LukeShu 12y ago

> I don't know how many hours the author has spent/wasted > on this topic The author, John Graham-Cumming, has been extremely active on the GNU Make mailing list, is the author of the "GNU Make Standard Library" of supplemental functions for Make, has written at least 2 books on GNU Make, and has developed commercial products that integrate with GNU Make (namely, "Electric Make"). That is to say: He is one of the world experts on GNU Make. I'm confident that he did this more "for fun" than because he actually wanted to get the number of jobs.

jgrahamc 12y ago
Yes. It was 'for fun'. Someone at CloudFlare asked me how to get the value of -j and I figured there must be some way :-)
- jordigh 12y ago
  Do you know if this person hangs out in IRC? I asked this precise question 10 days ago in #emacs, and I was curious to see my precise question answered, almost the way I phrased it.
  - jgrahamc 12y ago
    Too funny. I think it's just random chance. Although he is an emacs user.