What is the correct way to cause jobserver information to be passed to
child processes? I tried this Makefile:
all:
@echo Jobserver present? $(filter jobserver,$(.FEATURES))
+@sh -c "echo \"make toplevel MAKEFLAGS=${MAKEFLAGS}\""
+@sh -c "echo \"child toplevel MAKEFLAGS=$${MAKEFLAGS}\"
> If you provide a limit you'll see different behavior, e.g.:
>
> make -j5
I see, thank you. It might not hurt to mention this in the manual,
obvious though it may seem.
Having passed that hurdle, I see that GCC does not handle the
named-semaphore jobserver in native GNU Make on Windows. (I had
On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 at 07:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>
> > From: Richard Copley
> > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2024 23:29:28 +0100
> > Cc: help-make@gnu.org
> >
> > Having passed that hurdle, I see that GCC does not handle the
> > named-semaphore jobserver in native
On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 at 09:30, Richard Copley wrote:
>
> On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 at 07:31, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> > (Since you say "GCC source", I presume you are not talking about the
> > GCC build scripts, but GCC itself.)
Yes, I'm using GCC and GNU Make to b
On Tue, 11 Jun 2024 at 09:55, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> Thanks. I wonder how they distinguish between MinGW (a.k.a. "native")
> port of GNU Make, and MSYS/Cygwin ports. The latter implement the
> jobserver and the associated command-line arguments as on Unix.
> Distinguishing only by name is danger
