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Makefile executing another Makefile first?

I have 2 libraries in 2 different directories that I build with Makefiles.

library B depends on library A. If I modify a .cpp file in library A and run lib B's Makefile can I have B's makefile to automatically rebuild library A?

I am now rebuilding A, followed by B... but I'd like B to rebuild A automatically if it needs rebuilding. This is a streamlined example, but my real situation is
more complicated. I'd like the makefile for the final application to cause all
dependent libraries to build, if necessary so that I don't have to manually build them in the correct order.

I've tried "include ../A/Makefile" in B's Makefile, but I get errors. I think its because the directory doesn't change to ../A

Makefile:81: warning: overriding commands for target `all'
../A/Makefile:78: warning: ignoring old commands for target `all'
Makefile:98: warning: overriding commands for target `clean'
../A/Makefile:99: warning: ignoring old commands for target `clean'
make: *** No rule to make target `tinystr.o', needed by `A.a'. Stop.


Does anyone know how to make this work?

William
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md(1)							    BSD General Commands Manual 						     md(1)

NAME
md -- process raw dependency files produced by cpp -MD SYNOPSIS
md [-d] [-f] [-m makefile] [-u makefile] [-o outputfile] [-v] [-x] [-D c|d|m|o|t|D] DESCRIPTION
The md command basically does two things: Process the raw dependency files produced by the cpp -MD option. There is one line in the file for every #include encountered, but there are repeats and patterns like .../dir1/../dir2 that appear which should reduce to .../dir2. md canonicalizes and flushes repeats from the depen- dency list. It also sorts the file names and "fills" them to a 78 character line. md also updates the makefile directly with the dependency information, so the .d file can be thrown away (see d option). This is done to save space. md assumes that dependency information in the makefile is sorted by .o file name and it procedes to merge in (add/or replace [as appropriate]) the new dependency lines that it has generated. For time efficiency, md assumes that any .d files it is given that were cre- ated before the creation date of the "makefile" were processed already. It ignores them unless the force flag [f] is given. FLAG SUMMARY
-D c|D|d|m|o|t Specify debugging option(s): c show file contents D show very low level debugging d show new dependency crunching m show generation of makefile o show files being opened t show time comparisons -d Delete the .d file after it is processed -f Force an update of the dependencies in the makefile, even if the makefile is more recent than the .n file. (This implies that md has been run already.) -m makefile Specify the makefile to be upgraded. The defaults are makefile and then Makefile. -o outputfile Specify an output file (other than a makefile) for the dependencies. -u makefile Like -m, but the file will be created if necessary. -v Set the verbose flag. -x Expunge old dependency information from the makefile. SEE ALSO
make(1) BUGS
Old, possibly not used by anyone. HISTORY
The md utility was written by Robert V. Baron at Carnegie-Mellon University. BSD
June 2, 2019 BSD