Re: how to enforce ordering on a set of targets?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:

  >>>> ok, here's what i'm doing in a bit more detail.  it's a recursive
  >>>> make, where i'm using a trick i saw (in the make manual, i think)
  >>>> that allows me to process subdirectories in parallel.  in
  >>>> slightly simplified form:
  >>> 
  >>> IIUC, this "trick" is no longer necessary.
  >> 
  >> ok, i'm curious about this claim since i don't see how it can be
  >> avoided.

  ny> This is what I understood from:
  ny> http://make.paulandlesley.org/jobserver.html

I don't think that's correct.

The jobserver feature talks about parallelizing the builds of targets.
If you have a shell command with a shell loop in it, obviously make
cannot parallelize that: each pass through the loop will be done
sequentially.


Jobserver is cool, but it's not THAT cool! :-).

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