On Sun, 08 Jan 2006, David Laight wrote:
> It seems that .WAIT only causes make to wait before executing the
> commands of a target, it still executes all the dependencies of the 
> target in parallel with the targets before the .WAIT.

I think this is bad.  I would expect the ordering imposed by "a: b .WAIT
c" to affect all children of c, not just c itself.

However, I would expect the ordering imposed by ".ORDER: d c" or "c: d"
to affect only d itself, not children of d.

--apb (Alan Barrett)