Re: [bug #33138] .PARLLELSYNC enhancement with patch

[Paul Smith]

On Thu, 2013-09-19 at 14:47 +0200, Frank Heckenbach wrote:
> > Hm.  This is pretty contrived.  I have a hard time imagining a real
> > makefile wanting to do this for a good reason.  However, it does
> seem
> > that the solution may be simple enough.
> 
> I also doubt someone would do it intentionally, but of course, there
> could be a $(shell) command that writes some error or warning to
> stderr (perhaps only under certain circumstances, not expected by
> the original author). Then again, this situation may be so rare that
> it might not warrant extra effort.

I've never understood why someone would use $(shell ...) in a recipe...
I mean, the recipe will be run in the shell!!

However, it seems to be a popular thing to do based on questions to the
mailing lists and StackOverflow, etc.  My suspicion is that it's done by
people who are not fully grasping how make works.

Anyway I'll look at this and if it's not too difficult I'll do it.
Might as well clean up the loose ends.