Joerg Schilling wrote, on 31 Oct 2020: > > Well this is true. As long as POSIX does not mention parallel builds at all, > it makes no sense for .WAIT to appear in a POSIX standard - except as a > reserved special target.
It's already in the reserved namespace, so no need to reserve it explicitly. (The last sentence before the "Macros" heading says "Targets with names consisting of a leading <period> followed by one or more uppercase letters are reserved for implementation extensions." > Now it would be nice to have support for .NO_PARALLEL: <target list> and for [...] That name isn't reserved, because it has an underscore. However, SunPro make seems to have several special targets with an underscore, so it's possible underscore was left out of the reserved name space by mistake. -- Geoff Clare <g.cl...@opengroup.org> The Open Group, Apex Plaza, Forbury Road, Reading, RG1 1AX, England
