bug#13349: Re-execute with the "correct" make implementation

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, Stefano Lattarini wrote:

> On 01/03/2013 11:53 PM, Nick Bowler wrote:
> > On 2013-01-03 23:05 +0100, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > >   TARGETS = all check clean distclean dist distcheck install uninstall
> > >   .PHONY: $(TARGETS)
> > >   $(TARGETS): ; @gmake $(AM_MAKEFLAGS) $@
> >
> > Unfortunately, this kind of wrapper doesn't work particularly well.  If
> > the user runs something similar to:
> >
> >   make -j2 all install
> >
> > then the wrapper makefile will happily fork off two independent make
> > instances in parallel: one running "gmake all" and one running "gmake
> > install".  The result will probably be catastrophic.
> Sigh, so very true.  Adding ".NOTPARALLEL:" could fix this issue though.
> Assuming that it is portable enough ...
>
> At any case, the wrapper would be just a convenience for the most
> common cases, like:
>
>  ./configure && make -j4 check && make install
>
> It doesn't have to work in all (or even most) scenarios.

This problem (use of wrong 'make') does not impact Automake-NG at all 
and it does not seem wise to create a complex solution for a problem 
which is seldom encountered and typically benign.

Bob
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