Re: [PATCH] docs: other issues with parallel BSD make (was: Re: bug#9245: FreeBSD make in concurrent mode report spurious success in automake-generated tests harness)

[Bob Friesenhahn]

On Tue, 16 Aug 2011, Stefano Lattarini wrote:
> > >
> > I'll have a "draft patch" read soonish.  There is ample room for improvements,
> > but I'll post it here anyway since it can benefit from early feedback.
> Here it is.  As usual, comments and suggestions welcome.

The proposed documentation seems quite useful.  It does have a flaw in 
that it identifies 'make' programs based on the operating system where 
they were currently found (e.g. "FreeBSD make").  The issues may 
pertain to only certain versions of such make programs, or the 'make' 
associated with an OS may be entirely supplanted (or optionally 
replaced) with a 'make' which offers completely different behavior.

What is useful information today may become 'lore' in a few years so 
it would be good to add additional data so that the reader (and 
documentation maintainer) knows the vintage of the information.

Bob
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