On Sun, 2008-01-06 at 02:05 -0500, Dan McMahill wrote:
I'm looking for something along the lines of
[slot1] cc -c file1.c
[slot2] cc -c file2.c
[slot2] cc -c file3.c
[slot1] cc -c file4.c
where the [slot1] and [slot2] indicate which job slot is being fed a
command.
You can't, because make doesn't keep a list of slots like this. You can
read more details about how the jobserver works on my website below, but
in short make reads a single character token from a pipe and when it
gets one, that allows make to run a job. All the tokens look exactly
the same so there's no way for make to know which slot is being used.