On Wed Nov 22 09:52:49 2017, michal wrote: > Ah, then I misunderstood you, sorry. Do you know which specific make > implementations both support parallel processing and do not offer a > mechanism to selectively disable it on a per-directory basis? => implementations no(ne) even I should check old bsdmake. But specifications yes as -j is a POSIX flag and of course POSIX didn't define a way to disable it. BTW what I need is an easy and portable way to disable parallelism for one entry, not the whole Makefile.