Re: Setting target execution order

[Noel Yap]

The usual way to do what you want /is/ to make all a prereq of gzip.  I don't 
understand your reasoning as to why this wouldn't work.  Can you elaborate with 
an example?

Noel

Matt Perry wrote:
> 
> Is it possible to set a target to execute only after all others have
> executed?  I have a makefile that does some things and has an option to
> gzip the result.  Right now I'm telling it to gzip things by adding gzip
> as a target on the command line like so:
> 
> make all gzip
> 
> However if I accidentally type:
> 
> make gzip all
> 
> It will execute the gzip target first which I don't want since there's
> nothing to gzip yet.
> 
> Making all a prerequisite of gzip isn't a solution either as there are
> several targets in the makefile that are independent of each other (but
> create the same output file that I might want gzipped).
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
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