RE: how to advice please : rules with dependencies created in commands

[Paul D. Smith]

%% "PATTON, BILLY \(SBCSI\)" <address@hidden> writes:

  pb> Here I have a makefile that will create all programs and their
  pb> dependencies.
  pb> Problem now is that I don't know how to have top program have dependency
  pb> on something that it creates based on the value of a variable.
  pb> Obviously prog_1 : $(CREATE) would fail.  They are created by prog_1

As far as I understand it, you have this the wrong way around.

If the stuff in $(CREATE) is created by prog_1, then $(CREATE) depends
on prog_1, not the other way around.

You would write:

    all: $(CREATE)

    $(CREATE): prog_1

so that prog_1 was built before any of the others.

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