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Re: GNU Make question - how to write a rule for such a situation

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From: Eli Zaretskii
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2002 19:27

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Gupit wrote:
> 
> > 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.

You could either make this target invoke a recursive Make that is not
parallel, or make this target be a prerequisite of a special target
.NOTPARALLEL.

> But does that mean there isnt a elegant solution to
> this type of target-dependency problem in GNU make?

I don't think these solutions aren't elegant, and I don't know about any
more elegant ones.

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