make chain-build doesn't work as advertised

[Paul Howarth]

Patrice Dumas wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 08:18:24PM +0100, Paul Howarth wrote:
>> And in cases where you're using colons, you almost certainly want a
>> colon at the end too:
>>
>> $ make chain-build CHAIN='libdap bes : gdal : libnc-dap dap-server : dap-hdf4_handler : dap-netcdf_handler :'
> 
> this went better this time. But I think I still got it wrong, because I
> put the colon between members of the same groups while the right thing
> seems to be the opposite. I think I should have done
> 
> make chain-build CHAIN='libdap bes gdal : dap-server dap-hdf4_handler dap-netcdf_handler'
> 
> Would that have lead to parallel build of "libdap bes gdal" and then the 
> parallel build of 
> "dap-server dap-hdf4_handler dap-netcdf_handler dap-freeform_handler"
> (which is what I wanted to achieve...)?

Yes, assuming you're doing this from dap-freeform_handler/devel in your 
CVS checkout.

Paul.