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Re: Initialization targets


From: Paul Smith
Subject: Re: Initialization targets
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 10:19:38 -0500

On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 13:14 -0200, Rafael Garabato wrote:
> If I do make all , make dep1, or make dep2; what I want is that the
> "always" target be executed at the begining before any other target.

Not as such.  The only way to do that is to make it a prerequisite of
every target.

However, if you just want some scripting executed every time make
starts, you can use:

  _dummy := $(shell <some scripting>)

See the GNU make manual.

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