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Re: [PATCH 2/2] -fwhopr=jobserver

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>> So for this reason it would be really nice to have things as transparent
>> as possible.  I guess GNU Make is not nice enough to drop us some environment
>> variable or something? :(
>
> There are some, but not sure they are unique.
>
> Maybe we can fix make. The other problem currently is that you have to  
> mark the rule
> with + to force jobserver for the rule, otherwise it only does that when  
> it thinks
> you're invoking a submake. I was thinking about adding a new option to  
> make to force
> this for all rules, to avoid hacking makefiles everywhere.
>
> While doing that could also add a new environment variable for this.
>
> But short of hacking make I think my patch is a reasonable improvement,  
> won't you agree?

Sure.  I guess we won't avoid some GNU make changes then that will be hard :(

Honzz
>
> -Andi
>
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