> 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 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 last-build stamp mechanism to clobber the .aux when needed. Everywhere else, I write 'proper' dependencies, and make -j. :) BTW, this might be off-topic for this thread, but has anyone looked into randomized ordering of dependency-building? (*GASP* why on earth would anyone want to do that!?) I've noticed that SCons has this feature, but it might come in handy for verifying that a makefile is "properly written." Fang _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
