Re: .NOTPARALLEL doesn't seem to work as shown in the documentation

On Thu, 2025-04-24 at 11:45 +0200, Gabriele Santandrea wrote:
> Greetings,
> I am trying to learn make, going through the documentation and even
> writing a repository containing examples copied, extrapolated or
> commented from the GNU make docs.
> 
> In Section 5.4.1 when running the .NOTPARALLEL selective example
> (reported as an attachment) I noticed it would run sequentially in
> all cases, contrary to what the documentation states.
>  
> VERSION: GNU make 4.3 

This is your problem.  The feature you are trying to use was introduced
in GNU Make 4.4, released in 2022.

See the NEWS file:
https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/make.git/tree/NEWS?h=4.4#n97

Prior to this release, the .NOTPARALLEL special target disabled
parallelism for the entire make instance and prerequisites were
ignored.