Re: Performance loss when trying to use grouped targets

On Mar 5, 2024 at 10:06:44, Paul Smith <[email protected]> wrote:

On Mon, 2024-03-04 at 21:01 -0500, Dmitry Goncharov wrote:
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> A grouped targets rule like
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> a.x b.x &: a.q b.q; cp a.q b.q build/
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> tells make that a.x depends on a.q and b.q and b.x depends on a.q and
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> b.q. Which is not "each file depends on its corresponding file".
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> The above grouped rule is the same as
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> a.x: a.q b.q; cp a.q b.q build/
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> b.x: a.q b.q; cp a.q b.q build/
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> (There must be more to this recipe than that since these recipes don't
> actually build the targets a.x or b.x.  I'm assuming you meant each
> recipe to create both a.x and b.x.)
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> These two formulations are not really the same: grouped targets work
> differently and can't be replaced with an expanded version.  A grouped
> target:
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>  a.x b.x &: a.q b.q ; <cmd>
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> can only be emulated by something like this:
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>  a.x b.x : .sentinel ;
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>  .sentinel : a.q b.q ; <cmd> ; touch $@
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