>John Beck writes:
>> Moriah> Done.  I moved libinstzones and libpkg to after the last .WAIT under
>> Moriah> SUBDIRS.  I also alphabetized the rest of the entries after that
>> Moriah> .WAIT. ...
>> 
>> Please revert that order: libsmbfs takes much longer to build than any of
>> the others, so we want it first in that section.
>
>I don't think it makes any difference, does it?  This makefile uses
>.PARALLEL, so everything between two .WAIT markers is parallelized,
>and sorting such entries in alpha order should produce no harm.


Of course it does: we run a few jobs in parallel in you really want the 
heavy hitters first.


E.g., "dmake all" takes longer than "dmake allf"

.PARALLEL:

all: a b c d e f

allf: f a b c d e

a b c d e:
        sleep 2
f:
        sleep 10



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