> > are there any analysis tools which can be used to find bugs in
> > parallel make runs?
>
> I'm not even really sure what you had in mind.
Well, sometimes it happens during a `make -j3' call in lilypond's make
system that some targets aren't built -- and this make system is
extremely complicated...
> Something that has been requested in the past is a mode that will
> randomize or reverse prerequisite lists to help test different
> parallel make configurations. At the moment there's nothing like
> that available however.
This would be an improvement, however, I've hoped that some analysis
tool exists which presents the dependencies as a graph or something
like that, probably pointing to possible pitfalls.
Werner
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