Re: bin/51637: make doesn't accept .WAIT on the command line

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR bin/51637; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: bin/51637: make doesn't accept .WAIT on the command line
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2016 07:30:43 +0000

 On Sun, Nov 20, 2016 at 08:15:00AM +0000, Robert Elz wrote:
  >    | but if you need them to happen serially, you're stuck:
  >    | 
  >    |    % make -j8 foo .WAIT bar
  >    |    make: make: don't know how to make .WAIT. Stop
  >  
  >  make -j8 foo && make -j8 bar   ??
 
 That reloads the makefile... but I guess you aren't stuck per se.
 Anyway, there's no reason rules on the command line shouldn't accept
 .WAIT besides "the code sucks" :-/
 
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 David A. Holland
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