Re: Question about order dependencies

[David Boyce]

On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 9:49 PM, Philip Guenther <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 14, 2009 at 6:23 PM, David Boyce <address@hidden> wrote:
>> I was under the impression that GNU make is guaranteed to work from left to
>> right when making default goals?
>
> Sure, but that doesn't solve the original poster's problem when
> 1) using the -j option (other stuff could be done in parallel...), or
> 2) "make bar foo"

True, but it's worth noting that the OP didn't mention either of these
techniques so it's entirely possible that the left-to-right guarantee
is sufficient in his/her case.

David Boyce