Re: Phony targets not being made

[Dmitry Goncharov]

On Sun, Feb 16, 2020 at 5:35 PM Peter Dons Tychsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> There are no implicit rules used in the example AFAIK.

'%-sim: %' is the intended implicit rule that make does not look for
because rr1-sim is phony.


> They are all phony, but not implicit unless i am missing something.
Targets could be phony. Rules could be implicit.


> Still, it does not explain why marking the addtional rule as PHONY
> changes the result.

There is no such thing as 'marking the addtional rule as PHONY'.
As soon as 'PHONY: $(PHON2)' line is removed rr1-sim is no longer a
phony target and make finds
implicit rule %-sim: % to build this target.

regards, Dmitry

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> I think the example is valid.
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> Thanks,
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> /pedro
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