Re: MAKE BUG

[Paul Smith]

On Fri, 2023-10-13 at 13:13 +0530, Nachiketa Gupta wrote:
> Hi All, 
> MAKE version 3.8
> So my question is why does it always print -j independent of -j
> value?
> is some make.conf file located in our area which is overriding this
> variable with -j?
> I have also confirmed that with the 4.3 version it's working and
> printing -j with value.

Please don't post screenshots; instead please cut and paste the code
into question as text.  Thanks.

The answer to your question is right in the question itself.

The behavior you see (with just -j) is what you get when you run GNU
Make 3.81 (there is no version "3.8" of GNU Make).

The behavior you want (with the numeric extension to -j) is what you
get when you run GNU Make 4.3.

So, clearly there has been a change in behavior between 3.81 and 4.3.

This change was introduced in GNU Make 4.2:

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/NEWS?id=4.2

https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/NEWS?id=4.2#n36