On 2013-12-05 22:56, Emil Medve wrote: > make-4 changed the way/order it presents the command line options > into MAKEFLAGS > > In make-3.8x, '-s' would always be first into a group of options > with the '-'/hyphen removed > > $ make -p -s 2>/dev/null | grep ^MAKEFLAGS > MAKEFLAGS = sp > > In make-4, '-s' seems to always be last into a group of options > with the '-'/hyphen removed > > $ make -s -p 2>/dev/null | grep ^MAKEFLAGS > MAKEFLAGS = ps > > Signed-off-by: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > Makefile | 6 ++++++ > 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) > > diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile > index 2c88e44..0332949 100644 > --- a/Makefile > +++ b/Makefile > @@ -311,9 +311,15 @@ endif > # If the user is running make -s (silent mode), suppress echoing of > # commands > > +ifneq ($(filter 4.%,$(MAKE_VERSION)),) # make-4 > +ifneq ($(filter %s -s%,$(MAKEFLAGS)),) The -s% here is unnecessary for two reasons: as you say, s is always at the end with make 4, and even if a long option is used, the hyphen is omitted: 3.82: $ make -s -p --no-print-directory | grep MAKEFLAGS MAKEFLAGS = --no-print-directory -sp $ ./make/make -s -p --no-print-directory | grep MAKEFLAGS GNUMAKEFLAGS := MAKEFLAGS = ps --no-print-directory And according to http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/commit/?id=a674abe702cc0c017209a3186c32df050ff21f41, the space character is always there, even if there are no single-letter options. So we can do something like ifneq ($(filter %s ,$(firstword x$(MAKEFLAGS))),) and avoid accidentally matching things like --debug=jobs. Does the above work for you? Michal -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kbuild" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html