Re: Improvement on parallel make

[Brendan Heading]

Alexey Neyman writes: 

> Philip, 
>
> Dotting the i's: the problem I was originally trying to solve 
> with .WAIT was concurrent access to an archive file. Thus, I'd be 
> happy to see any of the serialization means: .MUTEX, .WAIT - 
> whatever. I just chose .WAIT because:

IMHO it is still better to make the archive dependent on the object files 
and regenerate it en-masse after all the objects have been built as 
required. IMHO, in this case .WAIT is just syntactic sugar.