Changes in chapter08/automake.xml [fa32551:c17a774]

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chapter08/automake.xml

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 <screen><userinput remap="make">make</userinput></screen>
 
-    <para> Using the -j4 make option speeds up the tests, even on systems with
-    only one processor, due to internal delays in individual tests.  To test
+    <para>Using four parallel jobs speeds up the tests, even on systems with
+    less logical cores, due to internal delays in individual tests.  To test
     the results, issue:</para>
 
-<screen><userinput remap="test">make -j4 check</userinput></screen>
+<screen><userinput remap="test">make <replaceable>-j$(($(nproc)&gt;4?$(nproc):4))</replaceable> check</userinput></screen>
+
+    <para>Replace <replaceable>$((...))</replaceable> with the number of
+    logical cores you want to use if you don't want to use all.</para>
 
     <para>The test t/subobj.sh is known to fail.</para>