On Sat, 2026-06-13 at 13:16 -0400, Dan Eble wrote: > # The StackOverflow answer also demonstrates a simpler solution > (using the > # new `&:` operator instead of `:`), available since the release of GNU > # make 4.3 in January 2020. Alas, at the time of this writing > (February > # 2022) this version is still too new to be universally available. > > https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/blob/d4efa89f2600a71bc68a48ea84fd4f04eaa14734/Documentation/tex/GNUmakefile?plain=1#L31-L34 > > https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Multiple-Targets.html > > How will we know when it is reasonable to use `&:`?
AlmaLinux 8 has GNU Make 4.2.1, and we use it to build the Linux binaries. For build tools, that is probably the limiting factor. Jonas
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