Make automatically passes the flags through the environment in the MAKEFLAGS variable.
On Tue, Feb 09, 2016 at 09:37:34AM -0800, William Tu wrote: > 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> 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> > > > --- > > > v1->v2: Rewrite commit message. > > > > magic, indeed... > > > > Acked-by: Russell Bryant <russ...@ovn.org> > > > > -- > > Russell Bryant > > _______________________________________________ > > dev mailing list > > dev@openvswitch.org > > http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev > > _______________________________________________ dev mailing list dev@openvswitch.org http://openvswitch.org/mailman/listinfo/dev
