Re: make (possible FAQ)

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From: mike burrell
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 18:13

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In gnu.utils.help Maurizio Loreti <mlo@foobar.it> wrote:
> Barry Margolin <barmar@alum.mit.edu> writes:
>> I don't think that's how make works.  It makes a plan at the beginning.  
> 
> No, it doesn't; but this may depend from the implementation.   Look:

You're right.  It doesn't work so well for parallel builds though:

$ make -j 2 foo bar
executing
executing
$

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