On Tue, 2022-01-18 at 18:07 +0000, Cook, Malcolm wrote: > Specifically, if '-j' is specified in MAKEFLAGS as a target specific > variable, should I expect to find that make 'enable that parallelism > mode' for the specified target (and its preconditions)? > I hope to find the intended behaviour is 'yes'.
Definitely not. Jobserver mode is enabled once for an entire instance of the make program. It cannot be managed on a per-target basis (except by running a recursive invocation of make).
