Re: Ordering targets as arguments

[Erik Rull]

Paul Smith wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 23:58 +0100, Erik Rull wrote:
>
> You haven't fully defined when you want (and don't want) these targets
> to be run, so I can't be sure, but it sounds like you might want to use
> order-only prerequisites:
>
>         copy_object: | object
>
> See the GNU make manual.
>
> Another option is to use $(filter ...) with the MAKECMDGOALS variable,
> something like:
>
>         copy_object: $(filter object,$(MAKECMDGOALS))

Hi Paul,

yeah, the last line was my solution, but I set it to:

copy_object: $(filter copy_object,$(MAKECMDGOALS))
        [...]

this causes copy_object only if it is given as a goal (no other target 
depends on copy_object, sp it is not called from somewhere else) and does 
not cause updating not given targets because of the dynamic prerequisites.

For my purpose the best solution, thanks for the hints!

Best regards,

Erik