On Tuesday 12 December 2006 00:43, Brendan Heading wrote:
> > <<<
> > foo: bar .WAIT baz
> > fum: bar boo
> > fun: baz buu
> > <<<
> >
> > the command "make -j 4 fum fun" will still serialize the "bar" and
> > "baz" targets, with "bar" completed before "baz" is started. Note
> > that the targets command line does not include "foo" - which
> > specifies the .WAIT behavior.
>
> Further to my reply to Philip earlier, why would bar and baz need to
> be serialized in the first place unless there was a dependency ? And
> if there is a dependency, why would someone chose to use this syntax
> rather than making that dependency explicit in the Makefile ?
E.g. both bar and baz can access the same file for writing and the
utility being used by bar and baz does not provide file locking.
Didn't I describe the "ar" too close?
:)
Regards,
Alexey.
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-- Arilou, SC2
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