On Thu, 02 Feb 2017 11:36:18 -0500 Paul Smith <psm...@gnu.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2017-02-02 at 16:53 +0100, Stefan Tauner wrote: > > I don't know why it behaves differently with slashes in the goal and > > would love to hear a rationale for that (and it being mentioned in > > the documentation ;) > > The current documentation reads as follows (emphasis mine): > > > By default, the goal is the first target in the makefile (*not > > > counting targets that start with a period*). > > The documentation is wrong (or rather, incomplete). It's intended to > state that special targets are not considered as default targets. > > The POSIX spec defines special targets as "targets with names > consisting of a leading <period> followed by one or more uppercase > letters". > > In GNU make we extend the characters that may appear in special > targets to include underscores, I think. > > But we don't allow slashes in special targets, so any target that > contains a slash is not a special target, and will be used as the > default target. Makes sense, thank you very much. My original objective was to disable the assignment of a default goal in a makefile that gets included by other makefiles, which provides a number of useful stuff including some recipes. I now simply resort to unsetting .DEFAULT_GOAL (with ":=") at the end of the included makefile and this seems to do the trick just fine. KR -- Dipl.-Ing. Stefan Tauner Research and Development Embedded Systems Department University of Applied Sciences Technikum Wien Hoechstaedtplatz 6, 1200 Vienna, Austria T: +43 1 333 40 77-316 E: stefan.tau...@technikum-wien.at I: embsys.technikum-wien.at I: www.technikum-wien.at _______________________________________________ Bug-make mailing list Bug-make@gnu.org https://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-make
