On 08/14/2011 03:19 AM, Bruno Haible wrote:
> I wouldn't want to kill all
> phony targets from all Makefiles, just for "make -q".
Sorry, I see that I wasn't clear earlier. Not all phony targets have
the problem. For example, the following works fine:
.PHONY: all
all: foo
foo: /etc/motd
cat /etc/motd >$@
The problem occurs only when a phony target has a nonempty action,
and when "make -q" depends on the phony target.
If you can program a sanity check this way:
sanity:
@$(SANITY)
where SANITY expands to the empty string if the check succeeds,
and to 'false' if it fails, then 'make -q' should work. This is
true regardless of whether 'sanity' is phony.
