[CMake] Make program arguments

David Thompson dcthomp at sandia.gov
Mon Aug 18 16:21:20 EDT 2008


> Is there a way to add arguments to the invocation of make?  In particular, I
> want to add the -j flag to do parallel compiles.  I tried setting the
> CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM variable to "/usr/bin/make -j8", but I get the following
> error when I try to compile.
> 
> CMake Error: Generator: execution of make failed. Make command was:
> /usr/bin/make\ -j8 "cmTryCompileExec/fast"
> 
> I'm pretty sure this used to work, but it seems to have stopped working in
> Cmake 2.6.
I don't know of a way within CMake but you can set the MAKEFLAGS
environment variable if it's something you don't mind added to every
invocation. Another alternative would be to write a script that added
the arguments you wanted and use it for the CMAKE_MAKE_PROGRAM.

	David




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