Re: The bugs in make v3.82

[Paul Smith]

Please send all questions to the mailing list, rather than emailing me
personally.  Thanks!


On Wed, 2010-09-29 at 12:43 +0400, Alexander Kornilov wrote:
> 1) Are the special target which executed before all other target? It's
> maybe used for some initializations and preparing of build process
> (e.g. remove log files from previous build).

No.  But you can fake it with the trick I mentioned in my last email,
using $(shell ...) in an immediate context:

        __dummy := $(shell <whatever>)

Here, <whatever> will always be executed before any rule is attempted.
You can leave out the variable assignment if you're sure the script will
not generate any output to stdout.

> 2) Are the special target which executed when error was occurred? It's
> maybe helpful to display detailed log when error was occurred while
> compilation. 

No.

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