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SubjectRe: compile problems with the kernel
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  "Marty Leisner" <leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com> writes:
> Why don't we just leave make alone
> (so you can do
>
> make -j 2
> like you normally do instead of
> make MAKE='make -j 2'

Easy, because the main Make just does a
for i in $SUBDIRS; do $MAKE -C $$i; done
which cannot be parallelized unless you somehow propagate the -j into the
submake, which standard GNU make cannot do because it doesn't have a
central "how many jobs are currently running" counter.

Adding such a thing is basically impossible, unfortunately, unless you want
to reimplement a /bin/sh parser inside Make. :-/

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Matthias Urlichs
noris network GmbH

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