Follow-up Comment #2, bug #23273 (project make):
No need to patch make itself, just include something like the following in
the desired Makefiles:
sandwich:
@if test `whoami` = "root" ; then
$(ECHO) "Okay." ;
else
$(ECHO) "What? Make it yourself." ;
Follow-up Comment #14, bug #17873 (project make):
Because even the most correct dependencies fail to account for
programs/scripts that use conflicting temporary/auxiliary files. For example,
latex and pdflatex both use the same basename.aux files given the same source
file (and with different co
> > In my experience, I frequently build pdf and ps documents from the same
> > latex sources, via latex and pdflatex. Unfortunately, the intermediate
> > auxiliary files they produce are not compatible with each other (latex vs.
> > pdflatex), thus, I use .NOTPARALLEL: foo.pdf foo.dvi, and use a l
> Follow-up Comment #3, bug #17873 (project make):
>
> Haven't been paying a lot of attention, but when is such a lame thing nas
> .NOTPARALLEL needed? Why aren't people just writing proper dependencies so
> that parallel/serial is irrelevant?
Example:
In my experience, I frequently build pdf and
