Re: Improvement on parallel make

[Brendan Heading]

Christophe Lyon writes: 



> all-local: $(whatever local targets are)
> The main thing I assume here may be that you "inherit" this Makefile from 
> an
> external project, on which you may have little influence. You want to
> improve the build time but can't afford to re-write the whole set of
> Makefiles.

Yup. Most of the code I deal with is third party source, exactly as you say. 
It's fairly straightforward to create a rule with the appropriate 
dependencies which goes off and builds the third-party Makefile accordingly. 
If it really comes down to it, you can use .NOTPARALLEL. I've never had a 
reason to need a .WAIT, and I guess that's true for a lot of other people 
too. 

Brendan