On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, 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.
sorry, i glossed over that part of john's response, or i would have taken exception to it as well. :-) recall that i got interested in this several days back when i was asking if there was a way to enforce an ordering on some dependencies. i wanted a single phony dependency to be processed *before* all remaining dependencies could be done in any order (or in parallel). (and the obvious solution didn't work for me based on the way i was defining my recursive rules.) the way i read the "make" book, i suddenly thought i had the solution. not so, as we've established here. thanks. rday _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
