Re: Parallel build results

[Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 02:17:05PM +0100, Michael Tautschnig wrote:
>I don't actually remember the part of this discussion where the real cause of
>the problem with the above rule was discussed, but in case it is about some
>dependencies between the rules (which is the most likely IMHO), then it should
>really be fixed as follows
>
>doc_install:
>  ...
>
>pure_instal: doc_install
>  ...
>
>all: pure_install
>  ...
>
>install:: all
>  ...

Thanks, not exactly what I need but sufficient to provide a solution:
push the "all" dependency from "install" down to each of the targets
which may be run in parallel.

    install: pure_install doc_install
	    ...

    pure_install: all
	    ...

    doc_install: all
	    ...

--bod