Re: Improvement on parallel make

[Brendan Heading]

Christophe Lyon writes: 

> Consider a variant of this; the original Makefile is:
> all: one two three
> one:  some-deps1
>   cmds1
> two: some-deps2
>  cmds2
> three: some-deps3
>  cmds3 
>
> Now, I call "make -j" and discover that one two and three should be ran
> sequentially, I suppose you will suggest to have two depend on one and 
> three
> depend on two. 
>
> But then, I would like that when I call "make two", only two is rebuilt, 
> not
> "one". 
>
> Inserting .WAIT in the all target solves this issue, without calling make
> recursively.

As does making one a prerequisite of two.