Re: envariable check still buggy

[François Pinard <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>]

Jim Meyering <meyering@ascend.com> writes:

> | +	* tests/Makefile.in: Put dependencies for check on a single
> | +	line to be sure they are checked and made in the right order.
> | +	The .env-warn file is in $(srcdir).

> | -check: check-recursive
> | +check: envvar-check check-recursive

Hi, Jim, and people.  I do not know how Automake currently stands with
the loss of parallel-able Makefiles (which it once produced).

I hope, Jim, after having convinced so many of us (:-), that you will
stick to the idea that parallel make is a good thing, and do not commit
modifications in a form that would prevent parallelism to work.

If Automake gets repaired, it should not reveal that your Makefiles got
broken in the meantime.  Never ever give in broken Makefiles, neither for
you or your installers (and whether maintainers or not :-).  To rely on
dependencies being made in sequence is abusing the semantic of Makefiles.

-- 
François Pinard   http://www.iro.umontreal.ca/~pinard