In the GNU Make manual, the section "Sharing Job Slots with GNU make" says: Be aware that the MAKEFLAGS variable may contain multiple instances of the --jobserver-auth= option. Only the last instance is relevant. Take the last element of the array, not the first. Link: https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Job-Slots.html Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@xxxxxxxxxx> --- scripts/jobserver-exec | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/scripts/jobserver-exec b/scripts/jobserver-exec index 8762887a970c..4192855f5b8b 100755 --- a/scripts/jobserver-exec +++ b/scripts/jobserver-exec @@ -23,7 +23,9 @@ try: opts = [x for x in flags.split(" ") if x.startswith("--jobserver")] # Parse out R,W file descriptor numbers and set them nonblocking. - fds = opts[0].split("=", 1)[1] + # If the MAKEFLAGS variable contains multiple instances of the + # --jobserver-auth= option, the last one is relevant. + fds = opts[-1].split("=", 1)[1] reader, writer = [int(x) for x in fds.split(",", 1)] # Open a private copy of reader to avoid setting nonblocking # on an unexpecting process with the same reader fd. -- 2.34.1