Re: derived sources and parallel builds

[Tom Tromey <tromey at cygnus dot com>]

>>>>> "Alex" == Alex Hornby <alex@anvil.co.uk> writes:

>> I agree it would be nice to say "build these files before doing
>> anything else".  That's sort of a pain with make.  One idea would
>> be to introduce an "all-hook" which would be run before "all".
>> This solves the common problem, but not the full one (what if the
>> user runs "make some-executable"?).

Alex> How about generating per executable/library hooks? That way both
Alex> the make all and make some-executable cases are covered.

This might be the best way to go.
It is sort of a pain to implement; for each such exe we'd have to do
this:

    exe: dummy
       build the exe

    dummy:
       $(MAKE) exe-hook
       $(MAKE) actual dependencies for exe here

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