Re: GNU make grouped targets (&:)

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On Sat, 2026-06-13 at 13:16 -0400, Dan Eble wrote:
>      # The StackOverflow answer also demonstrates a simpler solution=20
> (using the
>      # new `&:` operator instead of `:`), available since the release of =
GNU
>      # make 4.3 in January 2020.  Alas, at the time of this writing=20
> (February
>      # 2022) this version is still too new to be universally available.
>=20
> https://gitlab.com/lilypond/lilypond/-/blob/d4efa89f2600a71bc68a48ea84fd4=
f04eaa14734/Documentation/tex/GNUmakefile?plain=3D1#L31-L34
>=20
> https://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Multiple-Targets.html
>=20
> How will we know when it is reasonable to use `&:`?

AlmaLinux 8 has GNU Make 4.2.1, and we use it to build the Linux
binaries. For build tools, that is probably the limiting factor.

Jonas

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