serialize the reconfigure target ?

[pointo1d]

Hi again David ,

On 04/09/14 04:38, David Holmes wrote:
> I naively assumed this would work:
>
> make reconfigure images
>
> There should be a way to serialize the top-level set of targets 
> without serializing all the sub-targets. That way this would work, as 
> would:
>
> make clean-foo foo
>
> which is something I (used to!) use a lot.
>
> And while I'm still complaining about the parallel activity the build 
> logs truly are a mess that needs to be fixed. In particular finding 
> build failures is now quite a challenge. :(
>
> Cheers,
> David

I've just discovered this page in the gmake manual - 
https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Parallel-Output.html 
- or does this not address the problem ?

Rgds ,

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