Ken Smith wrote:
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However, that part of the discussion was an aside and my real concern
is that I was actually giving an argument to -j which was ignored.
It is not always ignored but in 10 builds it was ignored 5 times.
When "-j 4" is the first argument on the command line it never
happens. When it appears after a variable assignment it happens
occasionally. Any ideas?
Sounds like a bug on GNU makes' command line parser, have you tried
always passing the option as "-j4" instead of "-j 4" ?
Regards,
-Tristan