Re: recursive make: communicating target to sub-makes

[Daniel Kabs]

Hello!


James wrote:
>>SUBDIRS = foo bar baz
> ALL = $(addsuffix -all,$(SUBDIRS))
> all: $(ALL)
> $(ALL):
>           $(MAKE) -C $(@:-all=) all


Creating targets using variables is a good idea but I don't see how I 
can declare dependencies (e.g. say "bar" has to be compiled before 
"foo"). Well, I can list the SUBDIRS in a certain order but that does 
not work when "make" runs jobs concurrently (using option -j).

Cheers
Daniel
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