On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 10:59, Noel Yap wrote: > Technically, you oughtn't even rely on the left-to-right traversal since the > order is undefined /and/ will even occur in parallel when the -j flag is > used. Makefiles ought to be coded with -j in mind.
Yes, very good point. The left-to-right is totally lost with -j enabled and hence relying on it as a bad idea. I really should have pointed that out, especially since my day job is the parallelization of GNU Make and NMAKE :-) John. -- John Graham-Cumming Home: http://www.jgc.org/ Work: http://www.electric-cloud.com/ POPFile: http://getpopfile.org/ GNU Make Standard Library: http://gmsl.sf.net/ _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
