Re: MAKE_JOBS_ARG

Roland Illig <[email protected]> Sun, 2 Aug 2026 21:37:40 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.os.netbsd.devel.packages
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Am 02.08.2026 um 13:55 schrieb Greg Troxel:
> David Holland <[email protected]> writes:
>=20
>> I would swear we already went through this a year or two ago, because
>> I remember concerns about whether it should be -jN (required by some
>> tools) or -j N (required by others)...
>>
>> ...but I can't find the evidence :-|
>=20
> Interesting.   I guess we will have
>=20
>   MAKE_JOBS_METHOD=3D	make-j
>   MAKE_JOBS_METHOD=3D	"make -j"

If the syntax depends on the tool (as David suggested), it should rather
be implemented on a per-tool basis, without any user-settable or
package-settable variables.

Roland