Attention is currently required from: Martin Roth. Arthur Heymans has posted comments on this change. ( https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/56113 )
Change subject: Makefile.inc: Remove the $(INTERMEDIATE) dependency ......................................................................
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no, macros and functions are evaluated in parse order. So when you add intermediates A, B, C, D, ... the current setup ensures that B depends on A, C on B and A, D on C, B, A, ... (which could be optimized by a small amount by removing the transitive dependencies), creating a stable execution order.
Without that order-only dependency, executing C, A, D, B would be a valid strategy (and depending on how many parallel make jobs you have and what happens in them, that might well happen).
I added that order-only target in https://review.coreboot.org/c/coreboot/+/49358 specifically to avoid race conditions that we were seeing...
Ok I hope that does not put too much restrictions on the order of things?