enable make -j for multilibs

Christopher Faylor cgf@redhat.com
Mon Sep 29 21:36:00 GMT 2003


On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 05:08:35PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
>This patch enables GNU make's job server to work while building
>newlib.  It needs $(MAKE) to appear explicitly in the command it
>passes to the shell, otherwise it disables the job server, defeating
>-j completely.  An alternative is to start the command with +, but
>that's not as portable.  Ok to install?

Cool!  I would like to see this.

IIRC, newlib had trouble passing something like 'CC=distcc' to
sub-makes.  Am I misremebering this or does your patch solve that
problem, maybe?

cgf



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