Makefile always call all even with target

Question

Okay, I think I'm missing something in my makefile and it's causing me headaches. In my local build I call it with "dev:" and it does the dev target; Great, but I also want it to always do the "all:" target. When I call make dev it runs the dev but not the all, is there a terminology fail here?

here is my makefile

BUILD="build/"
STATIC="static/"
APP_NAME="Open World"

all:
    # Remove the current build folder
    rm -rf ${BUILD}

    # Create the build directory
    mkdir -p ${BUILD}

dev:
    all
    dev=${STATIC}dev

    echo "Doing DEVELOPMENT build"

    # Copy the package.json
    cp ${dev}package.json ${BUILD}

prod:
    echo "production"

Answer 1

The default (first) target is only run if no target is explicitly given. If you want it to run when another target is given then you need to make it a dependency of that target.

dev: all