Re: improvements for parallel makes ?

[Boris Kolpackov]

"Paul D. Smith" <address@hidden> writes:

> In order to really get at what .WAIT is intended to do you'd have to
> convert the original to this:
>
>     foobar: a b c D E F
>
>     D: X
>     E: Y
>     F: Z
>
>     D E F X Y Z : | a b c
>
> and so on for the entire dependency tree rooted at D, E, and F.  Which
> could be done, but is not that trivial and may not be the best way to
> proceed in terms of efficiency etc.

After reading this fragment, I had the following idea: imagine we had:
(1) support for guile, (2) support for accessing/modifying dependency
tree from guile, (3) support for truly order-only prerequisites. Then
the .WAIT feature could be implemented in "user-space" ;-).


-boris