%% "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
Now no target in SUBDIRS will be started until populate_base is complete.
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