netdev - Re: [PATCH iproute2] build: avoid make jobserver warnings

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Message-ID: <20200928083931.75629c32@hermes.local>
Date:   Mon, 28 Sep 2020 08:39:31 -0700
From:   Stephen Hemminger <stephen@...workplumber.org>
To:     Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de>
Cc:     netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH iproute2] build: avoid make jobserver warnings

On Thu, 24 Sep 2020 18:56:33 +0200 (CEST)
Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...i.de> wrote:

> On Thursday 2020-09-24 18:11, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> >> >
> >> >MFLAGS is a way to pass flags from original make into the sub-make.    
> >> 
> >> MAKEFLAGS and MFLAGS are already exported by make (${MAKE} is magic
> >> methinks), so they need no explicit passing. You can check this by
> >> adding something like 'echo ${MAKEFLAGS}' to the lib/Makefile
> >> libnetlink.a target and then invoking e.g. `make -r` from the
> >> toplevel, and notice how -r shows up again in the submake.  
> >
> >With your change does the options through the same?  
> 
> Well yes.

Ok, tested a number of cases, and this works for all of them.

But, the patch is missing Signed-off-by which is required for iproute2.
Please resend with DCO.