Re: GNU Make enhansment patch - batching compiles

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:

  >> You left out one crucial rule: how is files_list built?

  ez> I thought about doing that from the rule which is normally used to
  ez> compile .java into .class.  Something like this:

  ez>    %.class : %.java
  ez>   echo '$< \\' >> files_list

This doesn't address the central problem I listed in my previous post:

> there's no good way to know when you are building the first one of the
> objects, and you have to know that.

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