Re: FYI: make's "max_jobs" needs to be separated from -j (now?)

From: Simon J. Gerraty <sjg_at_juniper.net>
Date: Wed, 02 Oct 2024 16:48:24 UTC
FWIW make itself does not care about whether there is space after -j or
not.  Both -j14  -j 14 will result in "-j 14" being added to .MAKEFLAGS
(something that really annoys me ;-)
So not even a makefile that is attempting to parse .MAKEFLAGS is likely
to be screwing things up.

In short; I would expect the -j issue to be a red-herring.

David Wolfskill <david@catwhisker.org> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 02, 2024 at 08:19:25PM +0700, dsdqmzk@hotmail.com wrote:
> > ...
> > Just got the same error, but both invocations didn't work, and I noticed
> > that bootstrapped version of mtree failed to run because of (now)
> > missing libmd.so.6.  I think it's not really related to whitespace
> > between -j and jobs number, rather you had to (re)build the bootstrap tools.
> 
> Huh; interesting.  Well, that last worked for me; a few more details re:
> hashes:
> 
> Notes		Running				Sources
> "-j14"; OK	main-n272562-33ed9bdca307	main-n272579-3ec4fbdd98f2
> "-j14"; failed	main-n272579-3ec4fbdd98f2	main-n272601-b35f0aa4952c
> "-j14"; failed	main-n272579-3ec4fbdd98f2	main-n272615-f5a04b16b189
> "-j 14"; OK	main-n272579-3ec4fbdd98f2	main-n272615-f5a04b16b189
> 
> Also: I have been running with "WITH_META_MODE=yes" since May 2016, at
> least.
> 
> Peace,
> david
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