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Re: do phony deps take "precedence" over regular deps?


From: John Graham-Cumming
Subject: Re: do phony deps take "precedence" over regular deps?
Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2005 11:09:19 -0500

On Mon, 2005-02-07 at 10:59, Noel Yap wrote:
> Technically, you oughtn't even rely on the left-to-right traversal since the 
> order is undefined /and/ will even occur in parallel when the -j flag is 
> used.  Makefiles ought to be coded with -j in mind.

Yes, very good point.   The left-to-right is totally lost with -j
enabled and hence relying on it as a bad idea.  I really should have
pointed that out, especially since my day job is the parallelization of
GNU Make and NMAKE :-)

John.
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