Re: what happens to my --jobs?

2008-02-29 Thread Krzysztof Nosek
Hello, thank you for your answer. First of all, I understand the relationships between MAKEFLAGS and recursive make invocation, but I want to emphasize that my situation is purely un-recursive: it's just one simple, flat makefile. Just for any case. Second, I need to access the --jobs settin

Re: what happens to my --jobs?

2008-02-29 Thread Paul Smith
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 10:12 +0100, Krzysztof Nosek wrote: > shouldn't --jobs (-j) flag and its value appear in MAKEFLAGS? No; there's no need for it to be there. The submakes get information about whether they can run a job or not from the jobserver (a pipe). They don't need to know, nor would it

what happens to my --jobs?

2008-02-29 Thread Krzysztof Nosek
Dear list, shouldn't --jobs (-j) flag and its value appear in MAKEFLAGS? I would really like to know from my makefile how many (if any) concurrent jobs user requested. I do not know whether it is a windows issue. I reproduce that with make.exes from both Cygwin and GnuWin32, e.g.: : make