Re: do phony deps take "precedence" over regular deps?

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Noel Yap wrote:

> Technically, you oughtn't even rely on the left-to-right traversal
> since the order is undefined /and/ will even occur in parallel when
> the -j flag is used. Makefiles ought to be coded with -j in mind.

sorry, i glossed over that part of john's response, or i would have
taken exception to it as well. :-)

recall that i got interested in this several days back when i was
asking if there was a way to enforce an ordering on some dependencies.
i wanted a single phony dependency to be processed *before* all
remaining dependencies could be done in any order (or in parallel).
(and the obvious solution didn't work for me based on the way i was
defining my recursive rules.)

the way i read the "make" book, i suddenly thought i had the
solution.  not so, as we've established here.  thanks.

rday