Hello Paul. Just my 2 cents regarding Automake ... On Tuesday 03 May 2011, Paul Smith wrote: > > The other thing I was thinking is that this feature might want to be > enabled via a command-line argument. All the complex makefiles > generated by automake, etc. for example cannot take advantage of this > if you have to modify every makefile to add the special target. > > Not completely true. A developer using Automake who wants to take advantage of this feature could just add the line: .PARALLELSYNC: to his Makefile.am file(s). Automake's preprocessing policy is to pass through the things it doesn't understand (or that are not influential to it).
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