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Re: possible race condition in makefile with multiple dependencies?

On 2021-06-03 8:29 a.m., Robert P. J. Day wrote:

   i *vaguely* recall (probably incorrectly) a possible race condition
in that both t1 and t2 will check their dependencies and, if they're
out of date, both try to update them at the same time, possibly
stepping on each other's work. i think that's unlikely, so am i
misremembering?

I am not aware of gnu make having any parallel processing capabilities.

Mike

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