$(MAKE) query

[amit kumar]

Hello,

Thanks a lot for you responses. The -j option was ignored by make as I was using Sun make version 3.79.1.

I have one more query:

We are using recursive make for making the build and calling other makefiles in the sub directories using $(MAKE). 

I just want to know whether $(MAKE) forks another process. If not than is there any facility that we can fork every sub-make as s separate process.

This would help us in reducing our build time as the total build process is currently taking 6 hours on Sun Solaris 5.9-sparc machine.

Any other suggestions are also welcome but the answers should be specific for solaris based system.

Thanks 
Amit

Greg Chicares <address@hidden> wrote:
>  On 2006-2-14 11:32 UTC, amit kumar wrote:
> > 
> > I am GNU Make version 3.79.1  on sparc-sun-solaris2.8
>  machine and wants
> > to run make with -j option to allow execution of parallel processes to
> > reduce the build time for our product.
> > 
> > But I am getting the following warning. Can someone help me out.
> > 
> > make: Warning: Ignoring DistributedMake -j option
>
> I just grepped the 3.79.1 sources for 'Ignoring' and 'DistributedMake',
> and found only a line containing 'Ignoring VPATH name', so I wonder
> whether this warning comes from somewhere else. If it were from use of
> the $(warning) function in a makefile, I'd expect the message to be
>   [name of makefile]:[line number]:[warning text]
> Could this be an altered version of GNU make, or some solaris make?

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