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Makefiles: change search through $(MAKEFLAGS) for GNU make 4.4
Since GNU make 4.4 the semantics of the $(MAKEFLAGS) variable has
changed in a backward-incompatible way, as its "NEWS" file notes:
Previously only simple (one-letter) options were added to the MAKEFLAGS
variable that was visible while parsing makefiles. Now, all options are
available in MAKEFLAGS. If you want to check MAKEFLAGS for a one-letter
option, expanding "$(firstword -$(MAKEFLAGS))" is a reliable way to return
the set of one-letter options which can be examined via findstring, etc.
This upstream change meant that e.g.:
make man
Would become very noisy, because in shared.mak we rely on extracting
"s" from the $(MAKEFLAGS), which now contains long options like
"--jobserver-auth=fifo:<path>", which we'll conflate with the "-s"
option.
So, let's change this idiom we've been carrying since [1], [2] and [3]
as the "NEWS" suggests.
Note that the "-" in "-$(MAKEFLAGS)" is critical here, as the variable
will always contain leading whitespace if there are no short options,
but long options are present. Without it e.g. "make --debug=all" would
yield "--debug=all" as the first word, but with it we'll get "-" as
intended. Then "-s" for "-s", "-Bs" for "-s -B" etc.
1. 0c3b4aa (git-gui: Support of "make -s" in: do not output
anything of the build itself, 2007-03-07)
2. b777434 (Support of "make -s": do not output anything of the
build itself, 2007-03-07)
3. bb23009 (Documentation/Makefile: make most operations "quiet",
2009-03-27)
Signed-off-by: Ævar Arnfjörð Bjarmason <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Junio C Hamano <[email protected]>
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