Re: reverse dependency order?

2016-05-21 Thread Dan Nicolaescu
Tim Landscheidt writes: > Dan Nicolaescu wrote some time ago: > >> I've run into situations where given: > >> foo: a b c > >> and "b" was missing a dependency on "a". > >> The above did not fail with parallel make for years beca

reverse dependency order?

2016-02-02 Thread Dan Nicolaescu
I've run into situations where given: foo: a b c and "b" was missing a dependency on "a". The above did not fail with parallel make for years because "a" finished fast, before "b" actually needed to use it's result. It might be interesting to have a make flag that would reverse the order in wh

print absolute file name for --trace ?

2015-01-02 Thread Dan Nicolaescu
Wouldn't it be better if --trace would print the absolute file name? The current message like: Makefile:106: target 'all' does not exist are a bit hard to pin point in a big build system with a lot of Makefiles in many directories and a lot of parallelism. ___