Variable order of operations

[Harvey Chapman]

Instead of a lengthy explantion...

In the makefile below, the ifeq section gets evaluated *after* the "cgi" 
target. This is not what I want. Would someone please point out what I'm 
doing wrong?

Also, on a separate note, is it better to have one ".PHONY:" target or 
multiple, one for each phony target?

Thank you, Harvey.


ifndef DEBUG
DEBUG=0
endif

.PHONY: all cgi clean
all: cgi

ifeq ($(DEBUG),1)
    HIDE=
else
    HIDE=@
endif

# For some reason in this particular Makefile, the "ifeq" above gets 
evaluated AFTER
# the targets below. This is a quick hack around that.
HIDE=@

cgi:
#    @echo "DEBUG is \""$(DEBUG)"\""
#    @echo "HIDE is \""$(HIDE)"\""
    @echo "Building... " $@
    $(HIDE) DEBUG="$(DEBUG)" GUMSTIX="$(GUMSTIX)" 
BUILD_ARM="$(BUILD_ARM)" CC="$(CC)" CXX="$(CXX)" AR="$(AR)" make -C cgi

clean:
    $(HIDE) DEBUG="$(DEBUG)" GUMSTIX="$(GUMSTIX)" 
BUILD_ARM="$(BUILD_ARM)" CC="$(CC)" CXX="$(CXX)" AR="$(AR)" make -C cgi 
clean