On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 19:20:29 GMT, Erik Joelsson <[email protected]> wrote:

> GNU Make 4.4.1 changed the behavior of the variable MAKEFLAGS. This is 
> causing our makefiles to behave weirdly in certain situations. We need to 
> check for certain options in MAKEFLAGS to adjust behavior, and the way we do 
> it is not compatible with GNU Make 4.4.1. In the GNU Make manual, it's 
> [documented how you should query MAKEFLAGS for 
> options](https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/make.html#Testing-Flags) 
> and this patch is applying this recommendation. With this patch, I can 
> successfully run the failing examples given in the bug using 4.4.1. I have 
> also verified that tab completion still works and that the output of `make -p 
> -q` looks the same before and after.
> 
> Big thanks to Jaikiran who found the solution to this!

Okay - maybe there is something specific to make 3.x that they had to deal 
with. IIUC the problem will never arise in earlier make versions because the 
user-supplied args will not be included in MAKEARGS.

LGTM.

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Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer).

PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29942#pullrequestreview-3863999767

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