On Thu, 27 May 2010, David A. Holland wrote: > Log Message: > Introduce .WAIT into the cleandir rule for blasting the libsa/libkern/etc. > trees, because it can race with the libsa/libkern/etc. makefiles' own > cleandir rules. I think I've found all of the uses of the offending idiom... > Closes PR 43360.
> -cleandir distclean: cleanlibdir > +cleandir distclean: .WAIT cleanlibdir > cleanlibdir: > -rm -rf lib I would have expected .WAIT to be a no-op in this context. How does "do nothing, wait until you have finished doing nothing, then make cleanlibdir" differ from "make cleanlibdir" ? I suppose you wouldn't have made this change if it did not make a difference, but what I'd like to know is, why does it make a difference? --apb (Alan Barrett)
