On Wed Nov 22 11:34:14 2017, ray wrote: > On 22/11/2017 11:28, Francis Dupont via RT wrote: > > > => 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. > > If "-j" is a POSIX requirement, then one option is to have a target > that > calls make recursively with "-j1": > > non_parallel_target: $(MAKE) -j1 real_target > > building-in-subdirectory-for-single-target-only> => does not work for builtin target (BTW if you think we should move to another place we can go to a Kea ticket).