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Re: do phony deps take "precedence" over regular deps?
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John Graham-Cumming |
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Re: do phony deps take "precedence" over regular deps? |
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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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