Re: improvements for parallel makes ?

[Christophe LYON]

Alexey,

You wrote:
> Therefore, the patch I suggested uses another approach. If the next 
> dependency has the "wait" flag set, make does not consider it and the 
> dependencies further in the list until the jobs already running 
> complete.
 and then

> For example, the following Makefile:
> <<<<
> a: x1 .WAIT x2
> b: x2 .WAIT x3
> <<<<
>
> when run with "make -j a b", starts the targets in the following 
> order: x1 and x3 simultaneously, then, as both them are finished, x2.
> Indeed, the ordering information cannot be stored only in the 
> dependency chain.

So, if "x2" is in the "wait" state, why is make considering "x3" ?

Christophe.