Re: Question about bmake in parallel mode

[David Laight <david%l8s.co.uk@localhost>]

On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 07:38:28PM +0300, Aleksey Cheusov wrote:
> Hi. I'm developing an application with bmake as a build system.
> The simplified version of Makefile is below.
> The problem in it is that it doesn't work with -jN because
> order of build "realdelete" and "/tmp/first" (both they are dependencies
> for "delete")
> is not specified regardless phony target /tmp/first is a
> prerequisite for phony target "delete".
> 
> In general I often want to do the following. A target "first" is
> a prerequisite for phony target "last" which in turn has a number of
> prerequisites, and I want to build "first" before any prerequisite for
> "last"
> and "last" itself.

Use .WAIT as in:

foo: bar .WAIT baz

Nothing needed by baz will be built until bar is finished.
In effect this adds bar as a prerequisit for everything needed by baz.

        David

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