> .WAIT and .BARRIER seem to dance around the issue of missing
> dependency expression rather than fixing it.

When used to express dependeices, yes.

But there is no other way to express "neither of these two things
depends on the other, but their builds must not happen concurrently".
Maybe make needs to grow a syntax to express that?

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