Target that runs all the time

[victorhurdugaci]

Hello,

What is the recommended way to run a target or function before any target?

The issue I'm trying to solve is that we have some code that needs to run before all targets. I was thinking about init but that sounds too hacky and unpredictable... Requiring each target to depend on a common target is also error-prone because one might forget it... Is there an equivalent of TestMain?

Cheers

[ladydascalie]

I would in fact recommend using init.
I've used it in the past for that purpose and have never ran into any issues doing so.
Sometimes I even use it to setup some configuration values for imported targets, to great effect.

[natefinch]

Yeah, I don't generally recommend init, but if you legit need something to run before targets, that'll do it.