2 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/test/ChangeLog b/test/ChangeLog
index bb8ed89bed0..39470d7a79d 100644
--- a/test/ChangeLog
+++ b/test/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2014-06-13  Glenn Morris  <rgm@gnu.org>
+
+        * automated/Makefile.in (compile-main):
+        GNU make automatically passes command-line arguments to sub-makes.
+
 2014-06-05  Michal Nazarewicz  <mina86@mina86.com>
 
         * automated/tildify-tests.el (tildify-test--test): Optimise the test
diff --git a/test/automated/Makefile.in b/test/automated/Makefile.in
index 9d9f60e3efe..e0800f09eb0 100644
--- a/test/automated/Makefile.in
+++ b/test/automated/Makefile.in
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ compile-main: compile-clean
           echo "$${el}c"; \
         done | xargs $(XARGS_LIMIT) echo | \
         while read chunk; do \
-          $(MAKE) $(MFLAGS) compile-targets EMACS="$(EMACS)" TARGETS="$$chunk"; \
+          $(MAKE) compile-targets EMACS="$(EMACS)" TARGETS="$$chunk"; \
         done
 
 # Erase left-over .elc files that do not have a corresponding .el file.