> Which does absolutely nothing. MAKE_JOBS has no effect on cmake. > The build is strictly sequential. > > You can parallelize the bootstrap phase with > CONFIGURE_ARGS += --parallel=${MAKE_JOBS} > but the main build remains sequential so the overall gain is > negligible. > > I haven't been able to figure out how to get cmake to build things > in parallel, but then I'm largely unfamiliar with cmake.
in cmake based builds when you cd WRKOBJDIR and do a gmake -j4 it usually works in driving all cores to utilization. I tried with USE_GMAKE = Yes and it drives all cores.... so I think please add CONFIGURE_ARGS = --parallel=${MAKE_JOBS} and USE_GMAKE = Yes and then both configure and build will go parallel.