On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:43:46AM +0200, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > Well, that would be fine: lock() would detect it with MAKEFLAGS. > My question was posed wrongly: is there real-world indication of > build tools other than `make' that may happen to invoke more than > one instance of autom4te, possibly indirectly, at the same time? > (Because the MAKEFLAGS works independently of whether the Makefile > was written by Automake or by other means.)
One could do this with Ant, SCons, or dmake, and we would not detect it. I think we have good coverage of real-world usage, though.
