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Date:      Thu, 22 Jul 1999 02:20:02 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To:        freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: bin/10985: make .NOTPARALLEL special target is broken[PATCH]
Message-ID:  <199907220920.CAA90242@freefall.freebsd.org>

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The following reply was made to PR bin/10985; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Bob Bishop <rb@gid.co.uk>
To: Tim Vanderhoek <vanderh@ecf.utoronto.ca>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/10985: make .NOTPARALLEL special target is
  broken[PATCH]
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 04:24:25 -0400

 Hi,
 
 At 03:37 22/07/99 -0400, Tim Vanderhoek wrote:
 >On Tue, Jul 13, 1999 at 05:50:32PM -0400, Bob Bishop wrote:
 >> 
 >> >.MAKEFLAGS: -B
 >> >
 >> >Or, more correctly, you should probably be using this,
 >> >
 >> >.MAKEFLAGS: -j1
 >> 
 >> Those work, in their different ways, but they hit the current make as well
 >> as submakes. In the latter case, you get -jx -j1 passed down, which isn't
 >> very elegant.
 >
 >Having "-jx -j1" passed down doesn't particularly bother me at all.
 >
 >Anyways, the purpose of using .MAKEFLAGS was to hit the current make
 >as well as submakes.  If you don't want to hist the submakes, then you
 >just use .NOTPARALLEL.  It makes sense to me, anyways.  :)
 
 Well OK, close the PR then. I'll probably suggest a clarification to the
 man page in due course.
 
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