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>________________________________
> From: Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org>
>To: Jim Michaels <jmich...@yahoo.com>
>Cc: "bug-make@gnu.org" <bug-make@gnu.org>
>Sent: Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:41 AM
>Subject: Re: feature request: parallel builds feature
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>On Wed, 2013-05-01 at 20:38 -0700, Jim Michaels wrote:
>
>> again, problem solved with what I proposed. think. separate shell
>> window for each job.
>
>You can do that today by just writing your recipes such that they start
>a screen session or xterm or whatever. Those tools allocate and manage
>their own PTY's and so each has its own "stdin".
>
>You haven't provided any use case description, at a level _above_ the
>implementation. Sure, the manual documents a restriction but not every
>restriction needs to be lifted. We only do that work if there's a real
>need for it that can't be met more easily a different way.
>
>So we need to understand at a higher level what problem you're trying to
>solve. Then maybe there's a good way to do it with existing make
>capabilities, maybe the best way is using capabilities available outside
>of make in conjunction with make, and maybe the best way is to enhance
>make. We'll have to see.
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