Re: Improvement on parallel make

[Philip Guenther]

On 12/12/06, Christophe Lyon <address@hidden> wrote:
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> Maintaining the various levels of Makefiles of large projects can quickly
> become impracticable.

That's a general defect of recursive make setups.  How does .WAIT fix that?


> I try to advocate good Makefile writing, but I also try to avoid recursive
> Makefiles, and having a feature such as this .WAIT implementation would be
> quite handy.

To quote a coworker of mine: what problem are you trying to solve?

I have yet to see a problem here where .WAIT is obviously the right
solution.  It seems like a poor solution to the "no concurrency"
problem and unnecessary for the recursive make problems.


Philip Guenther