Hi We have an intricate system of Makefiles that build our software. The software is divided into modules which form a DAG which is fed to GNU make. Through some analysis we have identified modules that take a long time to build and want to get them going before anything else can start. We tried introducing a rule to similar to
some_target : module1 module2 module3 module3: module1 $ gmake some_target -j GNU make honors the order of modules when we use -j1 but as soon as we increase the value for j, the ordering of modules doesn’t seem to work. So in the above case with j value higher than 1 we observed that module1 is built before module3 cause of the dependency, but module2 which is not dependent on module1 or module3 isn’t always built before module3. Is there any way we can explicitly provide hints to gmake to build in the order that we provide? Thank you. Hitesh. _______________________________________________ Help-make mailing list Help-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-make
