Re: '--jobs' flag and dependencies

2007-09-17 Thread Paul Smith
On Mon, 2007-09-17 at 11:09 +0200, Frank Schaefer wrote: > The problem is that 'make' seems to start building a target as soon as > the dependency has been started to be built This is not how make works... or at least not how it should work. If you can provide a reproducible test case, then that

'--jobs' flag and dependencies

2007-09-17 Thread Frank Schaefer
Dear 'make' team, I found an issue with your make utility when applying multiple jobs (--jobs=10 for example). The problem is that 'make' seems to start building a target as soon as the dependency has been started to be built, e.g. dep0: build dep0 dep1: build dep1 target: dep0 dep