Re: How can I call one target from another

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "Anthony Di Paola" <address@hidden> writes:

  adp> Is there any cleaner way to do the following.  I was hoping I
  adp> could do the samething without explicitly calling make from the
  adp> command line.

You cannot invoke one target from another without a submake.

  adp> target_1:
  adp>     <do something>
  adp>     $(MAKE) target_2:
  adp>     <do something else>
 
  adp> target_2:
  adp>     <do whatever>

You could try this:

  target_1: target_2
          <do something else>

  target_2: do_something
          <do whatever>

  do_something:
          <do something>

  .PHONY: do_something

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