Since the 1.11 release I have not seen one bug report about $AUTOMAKE_JOBS aka. automake running several Perl threads to update several Makefile.in files concurrently, for speed. If you have more than a couple of Makefile.am files and a SMP system, then it should help.
Is anyone using it? Has anyone seen issues with it? Bugs could manifest in unstable Makefile.in content, i.e., running it a second time creates a different file, and/or unstable warning/error output from automake, thus by definition be hard to detect and hard to debug. Which is why I'm asking whether I should assume "it just works" or "nobody uses it" or "there is not enough use to expose bugs". Thanks, Ralf
