Re: order and parallelism

[Philip Guenther]

On 6/9/06, Paul D. Smith <address@hidden> wrote:
> %% "PATTON, BILLY \(SBCSI\)" <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   pb> I if have a rule
>   pb> all : b c d e f g
...
>   pb> Will it be b c d that go first?
>   pb> Or is it random?
>
> In this environment it will definitely be b c d that goes first.

...where "goes" means "is considered for possible updating" and _not_
"has the commands associated with it executed".

If you want to (reliably) control the latter, you must do so via
prerequisites between the involved targets.


Philip Guenther