Re: "make check" with non-GNU make

Thomas Munro <thomas(dot)munro(at)enterprisedb(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Aug 9, 2017 at 3:44 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Hmm, looking into Makefile.global.in, that step seems to be conditional on
>> MAKELEVEL:

> Ah, right. That coding is recommended in the GNU make manual to
> distinguish from explicit invocation and recursive invocation.
> FreeBSD make also seems to set MAKELEVEL.

Oh, that would do it.

> Doing this fixes the
> problem for me, though it feels a bit sneaky:

> - $${GMAKE} $@ ; \
> + MAKELEVEL= $${GMAKE} $@ ; \

Seems like a reasonable fix to me.

regards, tom lane