RE: improvements for parallel makes ?

[Meinecke, Jon]

>> There is also a thread on a .WAIT proposal from last year on one of 
>> the make mailing lists which discusses a number of scenarios.  You
may 
>> have already read that one.
> 
> Yes, it's me who started that thread a year ago :)

Isn't .WAIT just a short hand for a dependency relationship?

        foobar : a b c .WAIT D E F

Isn't this the same as

        foobar : a b c D E F

        D E F : a b c

Would it be possible to easily implement .WAIT to 
simply generate this dependency?  Or am I missing
something?

Jon Meinecke