psm...@gnu.org wrote in <81a04e6224bf59f387aa8bb0a68bf89152b1cd29.ca...@gnu.org>: |On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 14:53 +0100, Geoff Clare via austin-group-l at |The Open Group wrote: |> If I'm honest those cases never occurred to me when we were working |> on the wording. It seems unlikely a makefile author would |> intentionally use .WAIT in those ways, but obviously they could arise |> through expansion of an empty macro. |> |> I think we should tweak the text at the next opportunity to add |> "(if any)" in the appropriate places. I'll make a note to submit |> a bug against draft 3 to request that change. | |Thanks. | |For everyone's info, I implemented .WAIT in GNU make (pushed to Git |yesterday) and it will be available in the next release. | |I did review Steffen's patch but decided against that approach; but the |effort is much appreciated Steffen!
Sure. It was only a short run from someone without insight into the gmake code base, and if the real implementation can parallelize even with .WAIT, instead of hard-synchronizing upon .WAIT, then that approach is much superior. Good to hear .WAIT is in GNU make! (Poor Alexey Neyman, who waited 17 years to see his approach in.) --steffen | |Der Kragenbaer, The moon bear, |der holt sich munter he cheerfully and one by one |einen nach dem anderen runter wa.ks himself off |(By Robert Gernhardt)
