Re: Ordering targets as arguments

[Iwan Aucamp]

On 11/14/2010 12:58 AM, Erik Rull wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> how can I force make to "sort" targets that were given as arguments?
>
> e.g. I want to type at prompt
> make object obj=test copy_object
> What should happen:
> object gets executed and afterwards copy_object gets executed
>
> Well yes - I could write a rule like
> copy_object: object
>     [....]
In general prerequisites are the way to achieve this with make
> But this would mean that object gets executed also if I did not give 
> it as an argument to the make command.
This can be done by using finer grained prerequisites, e.g.:


object: my_file.o

copy_object: my_file.o


this would ensure that whatever copy_object needs will be there - and 
similarly that whatever object needs is there.
> I don't need a general handling of the sequence of the arguments only 
> for this special rule I want to have it executed after all other rules 
> (also with -j - not parallelized with the other stuff.
>
> Any ideas?