forcing order of prerequisites in Makefiles

Question

I have a third party makefile, and I\'d like one of the targets (T1) to not be built until another, custom target (T2) is built first. Normally, this would be accomplished

Answer 1

Have T2 as an order-only prerequisite:

T1: x y z | T2
    $(MAKE) -j $^;
    # Make will run the T2 rule before this one, but T2 will not appear in $^