Oops, let me first correct an error as mr. Ivanov pointed out:
make clean && make build && make clean

&& is supported by sh, bash and I'd suppose many others.

Cincerely,
Sigmund

Jukka Salmi wrote:

>Sigmund Skjelnes --> netbsd-help (2006-02-12 23:25:33 +0100):
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>>try make clean ;; make build ;; make clean
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>>The ;; command is a shell script command that executes the two operands 
>>and returns 0 if both commands returned false, or -1 if one did not. If 
>>the leftmost operand returned any other value than 0, the rightmost 
>>won't be executed. However, do consult the documentation for your 
>>favorite shell, as I'm not an shell script expert.
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>Hmm, which shell are you talking about?
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>>Sincerely,
>>Sigmund
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>>Jukka Salmi wrote:
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>>>Hi,
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>>>I need to run something like
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>>>	$ make clean
>>>	$ make build
>>>	$ make clean
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>>>on sources I can't change, but I only want to invoke make(1) once.
>>>Running
>>>
>>>	$ make clean build clean
>>>
>>>doesn't work since `clean' is only run once then (why?). And
>>>unfortunately `build' doesn't depend on `clean'...
>>>
>>>Is it possible to achieve this using a single make command?
>>>
>>>
>>>TIA, Jukka
>>>
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