Re: bash parallel build: make[1]: warning: -j16 forced in submake: resetting jobserver mode.

[Chet Ramey]

On 4/20/24 2:02 AM, Cedric Blancher wrote:

> > You can check what env the submake in question has and which recipe
> > runs it and see where this setting comes from.
>
> We were only using
> make -j16 all
> at the bash base dir. That should NOT trigger this warning.

Bash passes ${MFLAGS} to makes in subdirectories; that variable gets
whatever make puts in it, which includes the -jN option. It's that
submake that decides to print that warning. Bash could mark some
subdirectory targets as not parallel, but why would we do that?

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