X-RT-Interface: Web Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" X-Mailer: MIME-tools 5.508 (Entity 5.508) Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary References: X-RT-Original-Encoding: utf-8 RT-Send-CC: Content-Length: 516 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.