Re: how to enforce ordering on a set of targets?

[Noel Yap]

Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:
>
>   ny> I don't understand.  Wouldn't it be possible to do:
>
>   ny> .PHONY: populate
>   ny> populate: pre-populate | ${SUBDIRS}
>
> Sure but that doesn't do what the OP asked.  He wanted to be sure that
> pre-populate was completed BEFORE any of the ${SUBDIRS} were built.

I haven't used this stuff in a while (and was too lazy to look it up).  What 
about:

.PHONY: populate
populate: ${SUBDIRS} | pre-populate