[darcs-users] darcs patch: call $(MAKE) instead of 'make', because GNUMake is not...

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Wed Oct 22 00:44:21 UTC 2008


Chistian Kellermann <Christian.Kellermann at nefkom.net> writes:
> call $(MAKE) instead of 'make', because GNUMake is not called 'make'
> everywhere

There is a far more important reason than that: $(MAKE) allows make to
transmit MAKEFLAGS and -j information to subsidiary make processes.  If
you use "make" instead of "$(MAKE)", then "make -j 4 all" will not do
the right thing.



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