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Re: egcs/Makefile.in potential SMP problem?
- To: craig at jcb-sc dot com
- Subject: Re: egcs/Makefile.in potential SMP problem?
- From: Jeffrey A Law <law at hurl dot cygnus dot com>
- Date: Sat, 20 Feb 1999 13:56:25 -0700
- cc: egcs at egcs dot cygnus dot com
- Reply-To: law at cygnus dot com
In message <19990219232501.9583.qmail@deer>you write:
> I just noticed this commentary:
>
> # We put install-opcodes before install-binutils because the installed
> # binutils might be on PATH, and they might need the shared opcodes
> # library.
> # We put install-tcl before install-itcl because itcl wants to run a
> # program on installation which uses the Tcl libraries.
>
> As I am trying to learn what's going on configury-wise, I'm just
> wondering, is the above indicative of an example of a silent
> dependency that might be broken when building on an SMP system?
I suspect you're correct. For this to properly work with SMP there needs
to be a dependency. Ordering won't cut it.
jeff