%% "PATTON, BILLY \(SBCSI\)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
pb> Here I have a makefile that will create all programs and their
pb> dependencies.
pb> Problem now is that I don't know how to have top program have dependency
pb> on something that it creates based on the value of a variable.
pb> Obviously prog_1 : $(CREATE) would fail. They are created by prog_1
As far as I understand it, you have this the wrong way around.
If the stuff in $(CREATE) is created by prog_1, then $(CREATE) depends
on prog_1, not the other way around.
You would write:
all: $(CREATE)
$(CREATE): prog_1
so that prog_1 was built before any of the others.
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