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From: Gupit
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 18:44

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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> wrote in message news:<3C5A3FE4.6AEF7129@is.elta.co.il>...
> Gupit wrote:
> > 
> > If I write
> > 
> > $(trace_files): command.rc
> >          genTrace -options
> > 
> > make -j will fire off genTrace for each of the .trace file. This is
> > not what I want.
> 
> Is the parallelism the only problem with this solution, or are there other
> problems?  If parallel execution is the only issue, why not force Make to
> not fire parallel jobs?

I do want to use parallelism in the other parts of the Makefile. I
could get around by making it a recursive make target and specifying
j=0 or something. But does that mean there isnt a elegant solution to
this type of target-dependency problem in GNU make?
Thanks,
Gupit

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