Re: an error in gmake

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Henning Makholm <address@hidden> writes:

  hm> Scripsit "Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden>
  >> %% Ardeshir Saghafi <address@hidden> writes:

  as> Executing gmake -f pass0/Makefile -j 1 > pass0/logs/gmake.log.....
  as> Error: gmake: the `-j' option requires a positive integral argument

  >> I can't reproduce this problem.

  hm> FWIW, on my box GNU make produces the above error message if I
  hm> feed it "-j 1" as a *single* command line argument, space and
  hm> all. This is consistent with the "Executing gmake..." line
  hm> Ardeshir quotes.

Yes, that's probably the problem.  Thanks for the heads-up, Henning.

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