Re: executing a rule prior to any targets?

[gk]

At 09:10 AM 10/19/2002 -0400, Paul D. Smith wrote:
> >   g> * I do not want to specify 'recurse' as a command line goal; I want to
> >   g> build $(MAKECMDGOALS) in each directory in my list:
> >   g> recurse :
> >   g>          @for dir in $(SUBDIRS); do\
> >   g>                  $(MAKE) -C $$dir $(MAKECMDGOALS); \
> >   g>          done
> >
> > See the GNU make manual for some reasons why doing submakes inside a
> > loop like this is suboptimal.

I re-read the section on recursive use of make but found nothing there.
Could you point me to a particular section of the manual?

My idea of doing it in a loop was to avoid the stack overhead of real 
recursion.

Thanks,
Greg