* Tavian Barnes wrote on Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 03:39:07PM CEST: > On Sun, Jul 6, 2008 at 11:25 PM, Ralf Wildenhues wrote: > > > > EXTRA_PROGRAMS = prog > > prog_SOURCES = ... > > bench: prog$(EXEEXT) > > execute prog$(EXEEXT)... > > .PHONY: bench > > This works great, thanks. What does .PHONY do?
Tell 'make' that the 'bench' target is not a file but some action that should be taken, even if a file named 'bench' should happen to exist and have a new time stamp. '.PHONY' is a feature of 'make' and has no specific connection with automake; the GNU make manual documents it: <http://www.gnu.org/software/make/manual/html_node/Phony-Targets.html>. Cheers, Ralf
