Re: Improvement on parallel make

2007-02-15 Thread Christophe Lyon
I think Philip's point here is quite correct: > That said, this does appear to be a real problem. It appears to me, > however, that .WAIT is *not* the right solution for it, but I see no > point in spending any brain cycles on it until a decision is made > about what the problem is. Is it just

Re: Bizarre "missing endif"

2007-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 11:59 -0600, David Greene wrote: > I'm trying to construct a system that reinvokes make 3.81 if > make 3.80 is initially used to attempt a build. I've attached > a testcase showing the general structure. > > Make 3.80 complains about a missing endif. Why? This is a bug in

Re: Improvement on parallel make

2007-02-15 Thread Paul Smith
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:21 +0100, Christophe Lyon wrote: > No reply? No interest in this new feature? > Given the amount of discussion we had in december 2006, I thought that > the patch I proposed could help many people. > Any plan? Hi Christophe... Sorry for the delay; I've been shoveling sno