Dan Nicolaescu <d...@gnu.org> wrote some time ago: > I've run into situations where given:
> foo: a b c > and "b" was missing a dependency on "a". > The above did not fail with parallel make for years because "a" finished > fast, before "b" actually needed to use it's result. > It might be interesting to have a make flag that would reverse the order > in which dependencies are considered, this will catch really fast > missing dependencies even when building with "make -j1". > Is something like that feasible? Would it be easy to implement? I asked that exact question in 2012 (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.make.general/10601) and even then there had already been requests for that "in the past" :-). I wrote a basic patch to reverse or random- ize the order (http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnu.make.general/10608), but I don't think it applies cleanly anymore. HTH, Tim _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
