Re: improvements for parallel makes ?

[Boris Kolpackov]

Alexey,

Alexey Neyman <address@hidden> writes:

> Thanks for the interest in this feature. As you might have seen from
> further discussion, this suggestion was turned down on the basis that
> recursive builds are inherently flawed and therefore, GNU make won't
> incorporate any feature to help those who maintain such builds.

I don't think that was the conclusion. I know Paul is thinking about
implementing .WAIT or something similar. I, however, think that .WAIT
approach is a bad way to do this. I think instead we should add another
type of prerequisite model which further relaxes the order-only one.

hth,
-boris