Christian Heimes added the comment: Ah, got it. GNU sorts the arguments in MAKEFLAGS. The "s" flag is always in the first word.
$ make -j4 -s "s --jobserver-fds=3,4 -j" $ make --quiet -j4 "s --jobserver-fds=3,4 -j" This make code works well for me: ifeq (s,$(findstring s,$(word 1,$(MAKEFLAGS)))) QUIET=-q else QUIET= endif I've attached a patch that also fixes the quiet option for ctypes configure script. ---------- Added file: http://bugs.python.org/file27136/quiet.patch _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue15591> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com