bug#62791: BUILT_SOURCES not honoured in parallel build?

[Reuben Thomas]

On Wed, 6 Dec 2023 at 23:59, Karl Berry <karl@freefriends.org> wrote:

Any chance that one of you could write a patch for the manual to explain
whatever needs to be explained (better)? --thanks, karl.

I'd happily do that if I could work out, or someone could explain, exactly what's going on here.

The manual currently says: "You should never explicitly mention the intermediate (C or C++) file in any ‘SOURCES’ variable; only list the source file." Later, it talks about adding the header file to "BUIILT_SOURCES". This seems at odds with what Mike said and I found empirically.

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