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To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Subject: Re: make flags 
Cc: terry@lambert.org, bsdhack@shadows.aeon.net, hackers@freebsd.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 03 May 1997 12:50:45 +1000."
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Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 20:59:11 -0600
From: Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
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In message <199705030250.MAA22877@godzilla.zeta.org.au> Bruce Evans writes:
: >Alternatively, -j 2 could be added to the MAKE make macro, which would
: >help a lot.  Currently, it isn't added.  However, things like -k are.
: 
: It is added (actually to .MAKEFLAGS) but parsing of -j in .MAKEFLAGS
: is broken.

That would explain why my make world -j 2 test I ran didn't do any
faster or slower than w/o -j 2.

Warner