[mesa-users] parallel make

[Bill Paxton]

Hi Rich and other tech-savy mesa-users,

I'm wondering if there are some cool new tools out there that I should be using for doing parallel compiles during a make.

When I'm chasing bugs in mesa/star (a large fraction of my life it seems!), I do a lot of complete recompiles of star.
The rest of the system is fine; I'm just remaking star.  Is there a way to take advantage of the multiple cores?
Currently, I'm just using plain-old make that does one file at a time, and the compiler just uses 1 thread.
Surely some bright person has provided a way to do multiple compiles in parallel (still 1 thread per compile).
The trick of course is to get the dependencies done right --- but that information can be made available.

Anyone have experience doing something like that?

Thanks,
Bill