Re: patch to support output synchronization under -j

[Stefano Lattarini]

Hello Paul.  Just my 2 cents regarding Automake ...

On Tuesday 03 May 2011, Paul Smith wrote:
>
> The other thing I was thinking is that this feature might want to be
> enabled via a command-line argument.  All the complex makefiles
> generated by automake, etc. for example cannot take advantage of this
> if you have to modify every makefile to add the special target.
> 
>
Not completely true.  A developer using Automake who wants to take
advantage of this feature could just add the line:
  .PARALLELSYNC:
to his Makefile.am file(s).  Automake's preprocessing policy is to
pass through the things it doesn't understand (or that are not
influential to it).

Regards,
  Stefano