On Sat, 2014-08-23 at 16:25 +0100, Ralph Corderoy wrote:
> It seems a design flaw that I must
>
> make -sj clean && make -sj all && make -sj check && make -sj install
Well, that's because you're only considering this use-case, where we
know the context and it's clear that building them in parallel is not
what you want.
But, if you consider something like:
make prog1 prog2 prog3 prog4
then it's clearly a design flaw if these programs are built serially.
> How do I tell make that the targets I explicitly name, which don't
> depend on one another, should be built sequentially, but parallelism
> may be used in building them?
There is no easy way to do this in GNU make today.
You can play some tricks with MAKECMDGOALS; something like this:
all: $(filter clean,$(MAKECMDGOALS))
clean::
check:: $(filter all,$(MAKECMDGOALS))
install:: $(filter check,$(MAKECMDGOALS))
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