On 2021-02-03, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:
> GNU make does have a way to declare that a target (or multiple
> targets) is not safe for parallel use. This is done via a
> '.NOTPARALLEL: target' type declaration.
According to the manual[1], prerequisites on .NOTPARALLEL target are
ignored and this will
On Wed, 3 Feb 2021, Zack Weinberg wrote:
Therefore I like the idea of merely relying on the atomicity of
file creation / file rename operations.
These files should reside inside the autom4te.cache directory. I would
not like to change all my scripts and Makefiles that do
rm -rf autom4te.cache
On Thu, Jan 28, 2021 at 6:51 PM Bruno Haible wrote:
> Zack Weinberg wrote:
> > There is a potential way forward here. The *only* place in all of
> > Autoconf and Automake where XFile::lock is used, is by autom4te, to
> > take an exclusive lock on the entire contents of autom4te.cache.
> > For thi
Good to know. Thanks for info.
Those automake variables, where primaries and prefixes specifying installation
destination are used.
I see the source of knowledge I use is it where mentioned terms have been
introduced/used.
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From: Zack Weinberg [mailto:za...@panix.com]
