Re: [bug #17873] .NOTPARALLEL enhancements

[Reinier Post]

On Fri, Jul 06, 2012 at 03:19:11PM +0000, Jason Merrill wrote:

[...]

> I note that patch #5108 seems to create a single global mutex, whereas the
> documentation for the SCO .MUTEX target suggests that each occurrence of
> .MUTEX creates a separate mutex, so that given
> 
> .MUTEX: this that
> .MUTEX: yours mine

Yikes - isn't make complicated enough?

Isn't there a straightforward way to handle this
that better fits with the Unix toolbox philosophy?

E.g. by using a wrapper command to handle the mutual exclusion?
Something like

        with-pidfile /tmp/ld.pid $(LD) ...

-- 
Reinier Post
TU Eindhoven