Robert P. J. Day wrote:
certainly, if you were doing a parallel make, make would have the freedom to process the dependencies any way it wanted, no?
IIRC, even in a serial make, make has the freedom to process the dependencies any way it wanted. The left-to-right behaviour is just a side effect of this particular implementation of make in its current incarnation. It's allowed to change in the future.
Noel
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