Re: bin/48367: make(1) fails to parallelize in subdirs

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/48367; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/48367: make(1) fails to parallelize in subdirs
Date: Thu, 7 Nov 2013 19:31:07 +0000

 On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 07:25:00PM +0000, David Laight wrote:
  >  On Thu, Nov 07, 2013 at 06:35:00PM +0000, Simon J. Gerraty wrote:
  >  > The following reply was made to PR bin/48367; it has been noted by GNATS.
  >  > 
  >  >  The makefile is wrong.
  >  >  According to make(1) you need .MAKE on targets which are supposed to
  >  >  pass on the jobs queue.
  >  
  >  IIRC you should only need to use ${MAKE}.
  >  
  >  The 'problem' is probably that when running:
  >     (cd mack && $(MAKE))
  >  the change tries to stop it passing the job token pipe fds into the shell.
 
 That doesn't explain why it works if run via all2.
 
 But I'm assuming sjg understands what he did and can fix or revert it...
 
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 David A. Holland
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