Re: Regression caused by Commit: 5bd7ad2b225b ("Preserve the real value of -jN in MAKEFLAGS using jobserver.")

2017-11-02 Thread NeilBrown
On Wed, Nov 01 2017, NeilBrown wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31 2017, Paul Smith wrote: > >> On Thu, 2017-09-28 at 20:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: >>> I dug into this a bit. >>> The regression is caused because the 'j' flag now causes >>> arg_job_slots

Re: Regression caused by Commit: 5bd7ad2b225b ("Preserve the real value of -jN in MAKEFLAGS using jobserver.")

2017-10-31 Thread NeilBrown
On Tue, Oct 31 2017, Paul Smith wrote: > On Thu, 2017-09-28 at 20:41 +1000, NeilBrown wrote: >> I dug into this a bit. >> The regression is caused because the 'j' flag now causes >> arg_job_slots to be set, rather than setting job_slots directly. > > I push

Re: Regression caused by Commit: 5bd7ad2b225b ("Preserve the real value of -jN in MAKEFLAGS using jobserver.")

2017-10-30 Thread NeilBrown
is not really a function of the code, it is a function of the hardware that make is being run on. So I should set MAKEFLAGS=-j8 in my environment instead of if the Makefile. Maybe we just need to change the documentation... Thanks, NeilBrown signature.asc De

Regression caused by Commit: 5bd7ad2b225b ("Preserve the real value of -jN in MAKEFLAGS using jobserver.")

2017-09-28 Thread NeilBrown
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Re: Regression caused by Commit: 5bd7ad2b225b ("Preserve the real value of -jN in MAKEFLAGS using jobserver.")

2017-09-28 Thread NeilBrown
On Thu, Sep 28 2017, NeilBrown wrote: > Hi, > One of my Makefiles contains > MAKEFLAGS += -j > > Prior to the above commit, this would cause make to run as if I had run >make -j > > Since that commit, it appears to be ignored. If I run > make -j > explic