Makefile question with no answer?

[Jerry Feldman]

On Monday 15 May 2006 1:35 pm, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I suspect that there is no answer to what I'm looking for, but if the
> answer exists I'll probably get it here.
>
> I have a Makefile of normal industrial complexity. It builds a huge
> variety of different things, .o's, executables, libs, .PHONYs, etc..
>
> It sincludes a collection of other files.
>
> I want to add a line in one place that will cause *all* targets to have a
> new dependency added to it.
>
> make all or here or there or clean or whatever, I want any make to all of
> a sudden check for newthing as a required target but I want to do it by
> adding a one-liner someplace.
>
> Anyone?
Unless I misinterpreted.
let's say your existing Makefile has:
all: foo fubar barfu bar

Just add a line above all:
everything: newdep all

Since you are adding it before the all target, it becomes the default
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