Re: odd -J complaint from make on netbsd-11

[Roland Illig <roland.illig%gmx.de@localhost>]

Am 28.01.2026 um 00:54 schrieb Greg Troxel:
> I am testing an rc of ups-nut 2.8.5 (wip/ups-nut), and while it's mostly
> ok, building on NetBSD 11 under pkgrsrc gets me:
> 
>   make[2]: warning: Invalid internal option "-J" in "/tmp/work/wip/ups-nut/work/nut-2.8.4.1239/tools"; see the manual page
> 
> upstream doesn't think -J is in the sources.
> 
> If I build MAKE_JOBS=1 (instead of 4 which my mk.conf defaults to), I
> don't get the error.
> 
> If I build -j4 in a subdir -- that provoked the warning from top level,
> then I don't get a warning.
> 
> Building on 9 or 10 does not get this error.
> 
> Has anybody seen this?

As the warning says, "see the manual page". In the diagnostics section,
there is an extensive explanation of the warning, including a detailed
approach to track down where exactly this warning comes from.

Roland