On Thu, 3 Jun 2021 11:55:38 -0400 (EDT) "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday [ at ] crashcourse [ dot ] ca> wrote: > i took a look at it and it was a holdover from (i believe) QNX where > their version of make did not support parallelism so that many of the > rules were in the form: > target: dep1 dep2 dep3 dep4 > $(MAKE) -C subdir1 > $(MAKE) -C subdir2 > ... > $(MAKE) -C subdirn Yeah, that's bad. And echoing your other points... https://accu.org/journals/overload/14/71/miller_2004/ Regards, Dianne. To unsubscribe send a blank message to linux+unsubscribe [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To get help send a blank message to linux+help [ at ] linux-ottawa [ dot ] org To visit the archives: https://lists.linux-ottawa.org