gmake feature (enhancement)

[Phi Debian]

Hi All,

First post here, if I should not post here tell me gently :)

I am new to gmake (coming from the old unix world) and gmake is really
conveniant to work with.

I am not too fluent though, so may be my enhancement suggestion are
already adressed but didn't find the answer.

I'd like 2 things.

1) I'd like that -jN do leave some foot print in the environment, OR
better set a gmake internal variable (predefined name) with the number
that as given.

I do a lot of parallel make, with submake located on remote nodes, and
I'd like to forward what I got on the outter make invocation.

So far the workaround this lack of feature is to enforce the usage of
a make var, i.e I enforce J=N in the runstring of the outter make
invocation, if J= is not given then make fail saying "use J=N instead
of -jN"

This is ok, but using -jN is more common, so getting the -jN in a
variable would be nice to have. $(MAKE_NJOBS)


2) I'd like o suppress the enter/leaving message.
make: Entering directory '...'
make: Leaving directory '...'

Within the makefile, i.e though the user simply typed 'make' with no
suppress option, if want myself remove the enter/leaving message as I
do it myself addting the pid as a header i.e I printout things like

22335: Enter /...
22335: Exit  /...

Since I prefix all my make rules @echo with the make pid this is conveniant.

A way to implement this could be that make defines 2 predef variables
MAKE_ENTER_MSG_HDR and MAKE_LEAVE_MSG_HDR  with their default values
MAKE_ENTER_MSG_HDR:='make: Entering directory'
MAKE_LEAVE_MSG_HDR:='make: Leaving directory'

Then the user (me) could redefine this
MAKE_ENTER_MSG_HDR:="$(MAKEPID): Enter"

etc....


Thanx in advance
Cheers,
Phi