gbuild: GMAKE_OPTIONS overridable ...

[Bjoern Michaelsen]

Hi,

On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 08:57:05AM +0200, Tomáš Chvátal wrote:
> What will happen now if I build with:
> ./configure --with-max-jobs=32
> make GMAKE_OPTIONS="-j30"
make will be called with:

 make -j32 -j30

and execute with 30 jobs.

> And second why the LO must be special and just don't accept the arguments like 
> normal make process?

We can (and should) simplify this once build.pl/dmake is completely gone.
Though that would mean to default to makes default (which is -j1) and some
people will argue we cant have that as newcomers are too lazy to set their own
-jXX flag.

Best,

Bjoern