On Wed, 26 Nov 2025 14:46:00 -0500 Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote: > Maybe, you forget to add a space after the -j, like this? > > make -j /... > > ??? > > Since you didn't provide us with the command line that was used to > start GNU Make, we can't help more than that.
Also, when calling make with the flag -j, it is also a good idea to add a number after -j, something like: make -j 10 /... ...to limit the number of parallell jobs and avoid starting a fork bomb which might crash your machine by consuming all its CPU, RAM and swap resources. Depending upon what is being built and on what machine the build is done, a number equal to or slightly bigger than your number of CPU threads is usually a good choice. regards Henrik
