Follow-up Comment #1, bug #60730 (project make): Just to be clear, this only happens if you use -j to enable the jobserver along with -O.
The reason for it is that when there are multiple jobs running we don't know if the next output to be printed will be from this instance of make or from another instance of make (another sub-make running in the same jobserver domain). Since these targets are potentially running in completely different processes, we can't leave the printing of our "Leaving" message until the next output. What I typically do is (a) use a fully-qualified path to run the remote configure, and (b) set GNUMAKEFLAGS=--no-print-directory. This removes the enter/leave text everywhere, which isn't always great but is usually OK, and any error messages should have fully-qualified paths to source files, etc. in them so it's not very important for Emacs to be able to track the current directory via enter/leave. Of course this might not work for some environments, YMMV. The final option is to use -Orecurse instead. This groups the entire output of a recursive make together. Because the entire output of a single make is grouped, the individual enter/leave lines per recipe are not needed. The big downside here is that you won't get any incremental output (for any submake). So, it seems like nothing is happening then everything appears at once at the end. That can be annoying if you, like me, like to watch builds and "get a jump on" errors as they appear before the build is complete. _______________________________________________________ Reply to this item at: <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?60730> _______________________________________________ Message sent via Savannah https://savannah.gnu.org/