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Re: [SCM] make branch, master, updated. 4.3-234-gf6ea899d


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: [SCM] make branch, master, updated. 4.3-234-gf6ea899d
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2022 08:52:02 -0400
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On Tue, 2022-09-13 at 07:31 +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> Is the last sentence grammatically correct? I'm not a native
> speaker, but I'd have expected "a more unreliable way" or "a less
> reliable way".

This was rewritten a few times and meant to be "a less reliable" but I
fat-fingered it.  Will fix.

> Also, you might want to say "@code{.NOTPARALLEL} and @code{.WAIT}
> are ...", since AIUI this applies to both of them.

Yes.  I'll look at it.

> Can several ".WAIT" targets appear in the same rule? I'd expect so,
> but you may want to mention it, i.e. will
> 
>   all: one .WAIT two three .WAIT four
> 
> cause one to be run before two and three, the latter ones possibly
> in parallel, and all of them before four?

Correct.  In fact this is exactly how .NOTPARALLEL: <target> works: it
adds .WAIT between every prerequisite.



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