Re: Make phony target problem.

[Erwin Waterlander]

Paul D. Smith wrote:

> %% Erwin Waterlander <address@hidden> writes:
>
>  ew> Then the manual is wrong. My example is exactly like the example
>  ew> in section 4.6. See:
>  ew> http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_chapter/make_4.html#SEC41
>
> Everything in there is true.
>
>  ew> Now you can say just `make' to remake all three programs, or
>  ew> specify as arguments the ones to remake (as in `make prog1
>  ew> prog3').
>
> I guess you're reading this paragraph to somehow say that PHONY-ness is
> transferred to the prerequisites.  But that's not what it says, or
> means.  It says that you can run "make" and it will remake all three
> programs, which is true: it will use make's normal algorithms to remake
> all three of those programs.  It doesn't say they're all PHONY or that
> they'll be rebuilt every time.
>
> I'll add a note to the manual to make this explicit.
>
>  
Thanks for your explanaition.

best regards,

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