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Re: is "force" a keyword in prerequisites
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Paul Smith |
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Re: is "force" a keyword in prerequisites |
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Wed, 07 Jul 2010 01:25:43 -0400 |
On Wed, 2010-07-07 at 11:02 +0800, Jiongliang Zhang wrote:
> the force is in no way special to GUN make, but the .PHONY is special
> to GNU make.
That's correct. .PHONY is a special target.
It's not identical to the force rule in one or two subtle ways
(otherwise there'd be no need for .PHONY) but it has basically the same
result.
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