On Thu, 26 Feb 2026 23:03:52 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! > > Erik Joelsson has updated the pull request incrementally with one additional > commit since the last revision: > > Handle corner case with make 3.x Okay. ------------- Marked as reviewed by dholmes (Reviewer). PR Review: https://git.openjdk.org/jdk/pull/29942#pullrequestreview-3864691532
