Make “make” default to “make -j 8”

Question

Is there a way that I can make

$ make

default to:

$ make -j 8

?

Answer 1

You could move /usr/bin/make to /usr/bin/make_orig and make /usr/bin/make this script:

#!/bin/sh

/usr/bin/make_orig -j 8 $@

Be sure to run chmod +x /usr/bin/make.

Try this method if the simpler method in my other answer doesn't work. This method isn't as safe and is a bit of a kludge.