Re: Improvement on parallel make

[Christophe LYON]

Alexey Neyman wrote:
> Cristophe,
>
> On Monday 11 December 2006 15:50, Christophe LYON wrote:
> > I don't think so:
> > x2 will wait for x1 to complete, and x3 will wait for x2.
>
> I applied it and tried it out:
>
> address@hidden:~/work/make> cat mak
> .PHONY: a b
> a: x1 .WAIT x2
> b: x2 .WAIT x3
> x1 x2 x3:
>         @echo start $@; sleep 1; echo finish $@
> address@hidden:~/work/make> ./make/make -f mak -j a b
[...]
> address@hidden:~/work/make> ./make/make -f mak -j b a
[...]

I see.
I knew this "feature"....

Indeed, when invoked with "b a", b is started first, and as x2 has no 
wait constraint yet, it starts immediately.

What would you expect? The same sequence in both cases?

Christophe.