[H-GEN] gnu make command-line target ordering problems?

[Martin Pool]

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Martin Pool wrote:
> Although you will often get away with saying
> 
>   make clean dep all install
> 
> it's at least bad form: depending on the makefile, make could well
> decide that it doesn't _need_ to delete files because it's going to
> rebuild them later.  However,
> 
>   make -j clean all

(I meant to say)

will delete in parallel with compiling, which would be bad.

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