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Date:      Sun, 14 May 2000 15:46:40 -0400
From:      Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
To:        Lyndon Nerenberg <lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca>
Cc:        Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>, FreeBSD Current <current@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: make(1) patches to bypass quietness prescribed by @-prefixed commands in Makefiles
Message-ID:  <20000514154640.Q82488@argon.blackdawn.com>
In-Reply-To: <200005141925.e4EJPHN32617@orthanc.ab.ca>; from lyndon@orthanc.ab.ca on Sun, May 14, 2000 at 01:25:16PM -0600
References:  <20000514150714.J82488@argon.blackdawn.com> <200005141925.e4EJPHN32617@orthanc.ab.ca>

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On Sun, May 14, 2000 at 01:25:16PM -0600, Lyndon Nerenberg wrote:
> I like the idea, but the -l flag conflicts with a different usage for
> SVR4 derived makes (on at least AIX, Irix, and Solaris):
> 
>           -l load
>                Specifies that no new jobs (commands) should be started
>                if there are others jobs running and the load average
>                is at least load (a floating-point number).  With no
>                argument, removes a previous load limit.
> 
> Maybe this should instead be a -d sub-option?
> 
> And I like the idea of adding the -l functionality described above.

Ok, what do other people think?  I mean, it'd be easy to change the flag to
use this feature.  -dl seems fine for this particular feature.

-- 
Will Andrews <andrews@technologist.com>
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