Re: Another paralell make patch for libf2c

[Craig Burley <burley at gnu dot org>]

>If that is the case, why not let someone who has used the GNU make a
>lot to review the patch? I believe there are quite a few people here
>to know the GNU make well enough to make a sound judgment. If no one
>volunteers, I will nominate myself.

I can't see any reason for this patch.  Could you please *explain*
why the patch is needed?  The last, similar patch you submitted
seemed to be not most appropriate either, as Dave Love seemed to find
a more appropriate one (IIRC).  But he and I, and everyone else, can
only guess, because you tend to avoid actually explaining the problem
you're seeing, and how your patch fixes it.

Jeff, could you revert this most recent patch until Dave Love and/or
I have at least the foggiest idea what specific problem it is trying
to solve?

HJ, I appreciate that you are doing good work by trying things like
parallel makes, which many of us (at least, I) can't or don't do.

However, while I've been sometimes able to clearly see the reasons
for some of the resulting patches to g77-related material, I've almost
always had to start by guessing, and, this time, I can't come up with
anything.  It'd be better if we didn't have to guess in the first
place.

        tq vm, (burley)