That's good to know.  I have reverted the order.  Now, the entries under
SUBDIRS are in the same order as currently in ON and I just added libpkg
and libinstzones at the end of the list.

John and Casper, thank you both for the explanations.

-Moriah

John Beck wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> Moriah> However, I am a bit puzzled about the locations of those .WAITs under
> Moriah> SUBDIRS.  It seems improbable that everything after each of the
> Moriah> .WAITs actually depends on the libraries before them.  Am I missing
> Moriah> something?
> 
> Yes, that our library Makefile build scheme is a mess.  Jonathan Adams was
> working on a fix for that some time ago, but it's been on back-burner for
> a few years now.
> 
> -- John
> 
> http://blogs.sun.com/jbeck

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