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Date:      Wed, 20 Dec 2000 12:55:02 -0500
From:      Vivek Khera <khera@kciLink.com>
To:        stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: make -j
Message-ID:  <14912.62070.148318.480469@onceler.kciLink.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012200317540.32584-100000@jason.argos.org>
References:  <20001219122433.A1961@libero.sunshine.ale> <Pine.LNX.4.21.0012200317540.32584-100000@jason.argos.org>

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>>>>> "MN" == Mike Nowlin <mike@argos.org> writes:

MN> Imagine a makefile that does something like:

MN>   1) start off with "junk.h" that only has "#define SOMEVAL 1" in it
MN>   2) job 1 of the makefile runs a perl script that rewrites junk.h
MN>   3) job 2 of the makefile is a C prog that includes junk.h and
MN>      uses SOMEVAL

This shouldn't cause a problem if the dependencies in the Makefile are
correct, which isn't always easy to do.  If it does break with correct
dependencies, then make -j is broken.

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