Re: Ordering dependencies

2016-07-07 Thread Paul Smith
On Thu, 2016-07-07 at 10:27 -0400, Hitesh Kulkarni wrote: > some_target : module1 module2 module3 > > module3: module1 > > > 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. Make will use the same

Ordering dependencies

2016-07-07 Thread Hitesh Kulkarni
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 i