Re: how to enforce ordering on a set of targets?

[Paul D. Smith]

%% Noel Yap <address@hidden> writes:

  ny> I don't understand.  Wouldn't it be possible to do:

  ny> .PHONY: populate
  ny> populate: pre-populate | ${SUBDIRS}

Sure but that doesn't do what the OP asked.  He wanted to be sure that
pre-populate was completed BEFORE any of the ${SUBDIRS} were built.

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