Re: Re: Autodetect processing units with -j

> I'm not sure what "documentation, not manual" refers to.  Maybe you mean the man page?  Yes.  ~~~   $ man man                     General Commands Manual       man - format and display the on-line manual pages   ~~~  According to this man pages are manuals.   > It's not expected that users look at the value of MAKEFLAGS that make   > itself sets (so, the version generated in a recipe).  That format,   > although documented, is technically internal to make   I was refering to C. Funk's proposition to define GNUMAKEFLAGS in .profile.   That's why I said about variable and about '~/.config/gmake.conf' preferred method.   I'm not going to use it, specially when it's in 'internal format'.   That was also my concern, if I can put it this way.   > The problem for features that impact backward compatibility is that the   > very people who are most impacted are the ones who would never try such   > a branch.   If you made it this way and announced in mailing list that this and that feature was put  in the xyz branch to be tested and anyone interested or using this feature should check it out,  maybe they would try it.