On Wed, 26 Jan 2005, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> %% "Robert P. J. Day" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> rpjd> what's the proper way to enforce an ordering on a set of targets
> rpjd> i have in the following context? to make a long story short
> rpjd> (but hopefully not so short that i leave out crucial info), i
> rpjd> have the following in a makefile:
>
> rpjd> .PHONY: populate populate_base
> rpjd> populate: populate_base ${SUBDIRS}
>
> rpjd> where, when i call this makefile with the target "populate",
> rpjd> it's critical that the "populate_base" target there is processed
> rpjd> first, *after* which all of the subdirectory targets can be done
> rpjd> in parallel.
>
> If you want populate_base to be run before the subdirs, then they should
> depend on it, like this:
>
> ${SUBDIRS}: populate_base
i knew i was going to be too brief and leave out salient info. give
me a bit to write this up more carefully.
rday
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