Based on the explanation in the commit message, you're not going to see
it reflected in $(MAKE).

On 02/09/2016 12:37 PM, William Tu wrote:
> Hi Ben and Russell,
> 
> I'm also running "make -j2 dist-docs" but could find -j2 optioned passed
> in. Is the correct way of using this is like this:
> 
> # MAKE="make -j2" make dist-docs
> 
> Thank you
> William
> 
> On Tue, Feb 9, 2016 at 8:59 AM, Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org
> <mailto:russ...@ovn.org>> wrote:
> 
>     On 02/09/2016 11:16 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
>     > When GNU make sees that a command to be executed contains the string
>     > $(MAKE), it makes the jobserver that limits parallelism available to
>     > the command.  Otherwise, any sub-make that executes sees that
>     > parallelism is enabled but does not have access to the jobserver, so
>     > it prints a warning and turns off parallel job execution.
>     >
>     > This also makes the dist-docs process run the same "make" that is
>     > executed at the top level, in case that's different from the default
>     > "make" found in $PATH.
>     >
>     > Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <b...@ovn.org <mailto:b...@ovn.org>>
>     > ---
>     > v1->v2: Rewrite commit message.
> 
>     magic, indeed...
> 
>     Acked-by: Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org <mailto:russ...@ovn.org>>
> 
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