Re: [PATCH] Don't set $(MAKE) in toplevel Makefile

From: Christoph Hellwig (chhellwig@gmx.net)
Date: Mon Apr 17 2000 - 11:36:08 EST

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On Mon, Apr 17, 2000 at 12:06:48PM -0400, Ricky Beam wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> >Similar patches have been floating around for quite some time
> >and I had to delete a line from the Makefile everytime I made
> >a new source dir.
>
> Why? The command line overrides it. Mine is normally set to "make -j2"
> but I run "make MAKE="make" <foo>" when I need to see what failed.
> (Or "make MAKE="make -ki -j4" modules" if I don't care.)

Because it's simpler.
Today every make sets $(MAKE) itself.

Christoph

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