Make “make” default to “make -j 8”

Question

Is there a way that I can make

$ make

default to:

$ make -j 8

?

Answer 1

Why not create an outer makefile, that calls another makefile like this, this is replicated from the manual here.

     SUBDIRS = foo bar baz
     .PHONY: subdirs $(SUBDIRS)
     subdirs: $(SUBDIRS)
     $(SUBDIRS):
             $(MAKE) -j 8 -C $@

     foo: baz