On Wed, Dec 08, 2010 at 03:40:29PM +0100, M?rten Wikstr?m wrote:
> Yes, it is a GNU Make feature as far as I know. The + tells make that
> the rule is recursive and thus propagates the -j magic to sub makes.
> Normally it handles this magic automatically but for this to work you
> have to call sub makes with $(MAKE), if you use anything else you

The + syntax is GNU make specific.  Pretty bogus to put this in portable
Makefiles.

On the other hand, calling sub makes with $(MAKE) should be portable,
and will probably achieve the desired result with other parallel make
implementations such as BSD make/pmake.

Thor
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