Date: Sun, 30 Mar 1997 19:34:45 -0400 (AST) From: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: current@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: make -j3 on make world? Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.96.970330193100.199N-100000@thelab.hub.org> In-Reply-To: <23854.859763775@time.cdrom.com>
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On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> > The only change is adding ${MAKEFLAGS} to the ${MAKE} line so
> > that the -j3 flag carried down into the subdir's, so that make world
> > works with parellel make...
>
> That seems an entirely reasonable change - I can't see any reason
> why you *wouldn't* want MAKEFLAGS passed. Of course, this is also
> not the only place where ${MAKE} is used without makeflags (heh,
> and I always thought make passed MAKEFLAGS down *implicitly* to
> submakes as a special case).
>
I'm still playing with it, buts its the only place I've found
so far that makes a difference, at least as far as -j3 was concerned..
Having just thought about it, though...you *can* specify
-j3 inside of /etc/make.conf as well, but putting in a line of
'MAKEFLAGS= -j3', so I'm going to add (commented out) that to
/etc/make.conf and document that as well...
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