Re: Setting target execution order

[Noel Yap]

Matt Perry wrote:
> I added a line that says ".NOTPARALLEL:" at the beginning of the makefile
> and that seems to have prevented that problem from coming up.

IMO, blech :-)  I have yet to see a makefile with a correct dependency graph 
that can't be made parallel.  Granted, achieving a correct DAG may be difficult 
at times, but I think it's worth it.

The only time I use .NOTPARALLEL is when I don't want make output to be 
interspersed (eg when the target is "help").

> BTW, whoever wrote the docs for GNU make really did a fantastic job.  I
> went from knowing nothing about makefiles six days ago to confident
> makefile author.

I couldn't agree more.  I haven't found any good books on make.  The GNU make 
docs more than fills that void.

Noel