At this point, I'm thinking that the solution inside latexmk is best, since it
can then keep track of all the dependency information more easily.
I'm definitely inclined to incorporate the -parallel option into the next
version of latexmk. There are situations where it will be useful (and I
remember from an earlier e-mail from Barak, that he's already encountered some).
There are a few anomalies I'm seeing, which can be corrected fairly easily I
think.
John
On 3/24/26 9:12 AM, Barak A. Pearlmutter wrote:
I was thinking about it, and another way to implement latexmk
-parallel would be to have it kick out little temporary Makefiles and
invoke GNU Make on them, instead of doing its own parallel job control
and output buffering. The various make processes could be set up to
all be below a master make process, which sets up plumbing so they can
all coordinate on the level of parallelism. Maybe "I'll" try that, see
if it comes out cleaner.
