Make “make” default to “make -j 8”

Question

Is there a way that I can make

$ make

default to:

$ make -j 8

?

Answer 1

If you are using the command line you can do:

alias make='make -j 8'

This will be temporary, to make it permanent you need to add it to .bashrc

Read here: http://www.linfo.org/make_alias_permanent.html