Question

In a Makefile, is there any way of making a rule an implicit dependency of all other rules?

Say, for instance, i wanted a rule run whenever the Makefile is run, regardless of which rule is actually being requested. How would i do that?

Answer 1

I have no idea why you’d want to do this, but in GNU make you can do this by -include-ing a .PHONY file:

.PHONY: run-always
-include run-always
run-always:
    echo "trololol"