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Re: asynchronous make(1), anyone?



On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 02:08:14AM +0000, David Holland wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 11:40:17AM -0500, David Young wrote:
>  > On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 12:20:44PM -0400, Mouse wrote:
>  > > [various scenarios that break the idea]
>  > 
>  > If the programmer has to be careful about order of saves, then it's not
>  > a robust solution.
>  >
>  > [...]
>  > 
>  > A robust solution has to deal with this.
> 
> While we might like to live in a universe where build environments are
> constructed with ponies and rainbows, I don't think we actually do.

That's not very helpful, is it?

Dave

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