On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 10:51:06AM +0000, Stuart Henderson wrote: > Is this instead a target dependency issue? If you do "make a b c" without > Makefile dependencies between them, I don't think there's any guarantee > that they will run in order.
There isn't, indeed. make in "traditional non-parallel mode" will tend to run them in order, as lots of people don't know how to use make so that things are a bit friendlier, but I don't know if gmake does the same, and it's certainly not guaranteed.
